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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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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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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