The Constitution requires us to protect people in prisons from diseases like Covid-19. Courts have ruled over and over that we need to protect people in prisons from unsafe, life threatening conditions.https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/insight-protecting-prisoners-in-pandemics-is-a-constitutional-must …
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We imprison in greater percentage, and with greater population than any other society the history of man. We imprison more than the soviet gulags at their peak, and more than the nazi camps at theirs. This modern criminal overcrowding is the focus of (Brown V Plata)
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There's an important distinction. In USSR, people were imprisoned, even killed, for exercising their basic human rights. Same as China. In US, all prisoners have been through the courts in front of judge and jury in a reasonably fair trial. You can't say that for USSR or China.
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