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Horrendous. If more people took seriously the idea they could be incarcerated on clerical errors, perhaps we would see long-overdue and long-needed reforms in o
by ashleyn 3y ago
Horrendous. If more people took seriously the idea they could be incarcerated on clerical errors, perhaps we would see long-overdue and long-needed reforms in our justice system.
- distortionfield 3y agoFully agree. Unfortunately, most people won’t even start to process it until it happens to them. Even if not “wrongly”, being jailed for a minor paperwork issue is scarring enough that I am hypervigilant about cops to this day, nearly a decade after my personal experience with the law.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> perhaps we would see long-overdue and long-needed reforms in our justice system Go to any HN thread about something bad happening and you’ll find people calling to throw folks in jail. We have a strong retributive instinct in America. There is compromise to be had around the mechanics. But without addressing that root cause, we’re going to be an incarcerative society.