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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to these inmates and it is appalling and they know that they will get away with it because of the "they are criminals so hence they must be all liars" mentality. I don't believe that because someone commits a crime that they should not only be punished by the state by being
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incarcerated but then officers are basically given free reign to treat inmates as if they are less than human. That alone is disgusting and says how dare we say that we are a civilized society when we allow the things that go on in prison and turn a blind eye to the blatant
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disregard for basic human rights because we have adopted the attitude of "out of sight out of mind" and the ideology that they are criminals so they are not worthy of basic human rights. That says a lot about the thinking of those who run the prison system. They basically have
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carte blanche to do whatever they wish to those incarcerated because no one is going to care anyway but they are wrong because you know who cares? The families of these people we are locking up and treating in some of the worst ways imaginable. Not everyone in prison is there
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because they are violent or has committed some heinous crime. There are men/women that are doing more time than a child molester for a non violent drug offense because someone had to come up with the brilliant idea of mandatory minimums for drug offenses and how is that working
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out so far. The worst pieces of legislation ever passed are mandatory minimums for drug offenses and three strikes law because it has only led to mass incarceration and the overcrowding of the prison system. The 3 strikes law should only apply to violent offenders such as rapists
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child molesters, and people who use a gun when committing their crimes. It shouldn't apply to non violent offenders at all. We wouldn't even have to pass laws like that if they would put the focus back on rehabilitation instead of punishment like the penal system was originally
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set up to be geared towards but once politicians seen the amount of money that can be made off of what amounts to legal slavery, that just fueled them to pass more laws aimed at incarcerating the poor and minorities and if there is no truth in that statement then explain to me
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like I am a 5th grader why is the punishment for crack cocaine higher than powder cocaine? I will tell you why. Because our lawmakers associate crack cocaine with inner city dealers and addicts which you already know means minorities and the poor and they associate powder cocaine
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