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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Furthermore, in Singapore for example, the penalties are much more severe for crime. Hundreds have been executed for drug trafficking in the 1990s-2000s. If we had Singaporean law here, every drug dealer in the Tenderloin would be executed, and you'd probably have no more dealers
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I'm not an advocate for Singaporean justice. I think executing drug dealers is too severe. In fact I'm against the death penalty period. But doubtless such severe consequences deter drug dealing. Maybe that's why their crime and their prison population is low.
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80% of people in US jails are being held pre-trial -- legally innocent.
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Would you release ones who are a flight risk? In US, you have the right to a speedy trial. In China, ruffle too many feathers, and you might just disappear. You wouldn't be counted as an inmate. In Latin America, excessive pretrial is a huge problemhttps://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/mapping-latin-americas-pretrial-detention-populations/ …
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