My father was granted release on parole today, after more than 40 years in prison! 

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Replying to @chesaboudin
"But far from avoiding the legacy of his parents, Boudin embraces it. It is impossible to understand him, the author says, without understanding the strong impression that their politics made on his own." - James Kirchick, The New Republic, Fall 2009
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Replying to @SteveAdams80182 @chesaboudin
76 percent of all inmates end up back in prison in 5 years. Food for thought.
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Prisons were originally built for the purpose of rehabilitation and throughout the years they have moved away from the concept of rehabilitation because it wasn't cost effective. They have severely cut educational programs and programs aimed at learning a trade and instead they
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Replying to @Kelly826 @thepmitchell and
specific set of people, namely minorities, those who have invested in the privatization of prisons need not fear losing their cheap labor because these laws have led to an overwhelming mass incarceration. Now you have overcrowded prisons run by inexperienced correctional officers
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who are largely outnumbered by inmates because we continue to overcrowd the prison system rather than sentence defendants to alternative programs, and that is going to equal a disaster waiting to happen. When you take into consideration the harsh and dehumanizing treatment these
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Replying to @Kelly826 @thepmitchell and
inmates are subjected to by some of these correctional officers and how inmates are extorted by the guards to sell the contraband that they bring in, and if you believe that the inmates are the only ones sneaking things into the prison and the guards are innocent on this one, you
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Replying to @Kelly826 @thepmitchell and
are certainly living in a fantasy world. Correctional officers have found a way to supplement their income by extorting inmates to deal drugs within the prison system because the markup in prison is almost if not 10 times what it would be on the street and the inmates have no
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choice but to do what the guards tell them because these guards can make it impossible to even get through their sentence by taking away privileges such as visits, mail, phone calls, and commissary, they can lock them in the Secure Housing Unit or the hole as some say. They can
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