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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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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So before we say that the US is the most heavy handed criminal justice system in the world, we do need to realize that at least here, human rights are respected, much more so than most countries, and definitely more so than China, Russia, India, or Brazil.
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At least the law in singapore is enforced consistently. They have a police state too, but we brutalize and incarcerate more people, and for less serious offences.pic.twitter.com/xOBL8NADb0
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