control the narrative of the news media. The only reason people know how bad the situation was at Parchman Prison in Mississippi was over the summer was because some of the inmates got a hold of a cellphone and they went live on Facebook to show the world the deplorable living
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conditions they are being subjected to. The prison is outdated and falling apart around them, their cells are flooded with water from the pipes leaking, there is toxic mold growing in most of the cells and let's not forget about the deceased inmate that the guards just allowed to
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Sounds like many public schools in the US. While prisoners should be treated humanely, as we have limited resources, I'm going to favor kids over crooks.
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We do not have limited resources when the prison industry is a billion dollar business. All of the contracts that prisons have with outside companies to produce whatever product they are contracted to produce and it is only costing the prison a dollar and some change per prisoner
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a day. Sounds to me like they have plenty of money to put in place programs that focus on rehabilitation and focus on cutting the recidivism rate. If you are not going to do anything to educate and teach inmates a valuable skill that will benefit them on the outside how can you
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honestly expect them to become productive members of society or do you just assume that anyone who is sentenced to prison are just throw aways and the dredges of society so why bother helping them with an education and a skill so that once they do make parole they don't have to
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fall back on committing crimes in order to survive out on the streets. Another way to save money is to stop incarcerating innocent people for 20, 30,40 years and that ends up costing the states millions of dollars all because someone needs a conviction at any cost. When you don't
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hold law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges liable for misconduct in a criminal trial and they know that they are covered under judicial immunity, why should they play fairly because they will never have to worry about being held responsible for their egregious behavior and
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they will never face the consequences of taking someone's freedom from them and that isn't even mentioning what it does to these people who have been incarcerated all of these years for a crime that they did not commit. The states seem to think that just compensating them a
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certain amount per year should suffice and that is a joke. Most of these people who have been locked up for several years, even decades, have a hard time adjusting to the outside world because they are institutionalized, not to mention the mental disorders that they are suffering
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from due to being incarcerated with violent offenders and abused by some of these correctional officers. We all know how some of these correctional officers think and feel about these inmates. You can go to any C.O. message boards and read some of the things that they say and do
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