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interesting that it sounds like a bad thing that the prison is minimum security. As a Dane the American prison system baffles me. it obviously doesn't work and
by madsbuch 3y ago
interesting that it sounds like a bad thing that the prison is minimum security.
As a Dane the American prison system baffles me. it obviously doesn't work and has commercial interests to the entire countrys detriment.
yet I still feel this schadenfreude and the sentiment that sentences should be rougher and longer.
where does this societal incongruence come from?
- gizmo 3y agoBecause people have gotten life sentences for petty crimes like stealing a pair of socks. You have to compare Holmes’ case with how other people get crushed by the criminal justice system, and then you can’t help but notice the double standard. https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/25/a_life_sentence_for_stealing_socks https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/25/a_life_sentence_for_...