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"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones." - N
by eesmith 2y ago
"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones."
- Nelson Mandela
- trilbyglens 2y agoWell, we pretty spectacularly fail that test.
- eesmith 2y agoYup. And have for a very long time. At least when I was a kid there was the idea that prisons should be used to rehabilitate. Now it seems like it's only for cruel punishment and profit extraction.