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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
And? My one example is not an exhaustive list, summary, or assessment. This still does not equate to a ban on books as you have represented.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Supreme court has upheld that some things can be banned if they are in the interest of maintaining the security of a detention facility. Inmates shouldn't be receiving books on how to make bombs for instance.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
They didn't ban books. They banned books from random sources. Established retailers and other approved sources are not banned and there is a process for becoming approved. If you study corrections at all this is a very common policy an
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
It is in fact about rehabilitation which is why the criminal justice system and prisons have rehabilitation and education programs. "Corrections in America" is the name of the book and it discusses the history of criminal justice
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Where did I claim to be an expert? I'm referring to the actions taken by the experts who oversee the prison system mentioned in the article.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Corrections theory has evolved a lot since 1950s and it hasn't been about applying punishment for a long time. If someone is locked up 23 hours a day, it is because it was determined through a classification process that they are a dan
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Those questions you ask were already decided in a court of law by an elected or appointed judge and a jury of the subject's peers. And if there is a better way to deal with contraband then what is it? HN wants to trust the experts on m
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Any time there is an article on HN about prisons, most of the comments are kooky conspiracy theories. The concept that bad people intent on committing crime exist seems to be incomprehensible to many if not most in this audience for some re
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
It should be obvious any romantic notions of things like helping the environment or saving lives are just costumes for the reality of most modern business motivations: making money.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Ok, going to say you reminded me and I agree now. I was thinking solely of WP core, but if you are to include all of the official plugins and Woocommerce, then yeah I can see the issue.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Wordpress has taken great strides to comply with the latest PHP standards so I'd say that's not quite fair to include it here.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Say what you want about PHP, but here we are decades later. I'm still using it, it still works, and it's still getting updated and improved.
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by jdjdjrj 5y ago
Politifact and factcheck get plenty of things wrong so I wouldn't say "heck even" to that. These websites are a joke.