Ex.:“The problem doesn’t affect just prisoners; it’s a public health concern as well. In recent years...in HIV has been “treatment as prevention”-people whose HIV is well-controlled are substantially less likely to infect others.” Marshall Project in Kaiser Health News 2016
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No offense, but that last statement makes no sense. By releasing prisoners, who are in de facto quarantine in prison, into the general public, doesn't that increase risk of exposure to them? What about the risk to safety of the general public these inmates pose?
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Replying to @StephenMPinto @6dm4 and
I have a hard time believing that it's impossible to achieve recommended social distancing in our prison, especially when our prisons have adequate space. I don't buy the fact that reasonable mitigation measures can't be taken. I'm just not convinced yet. Perhaps I'm wrong?
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That’s the issue. “Adequate spacing” is the issue - overcrowding is the norm in the penal system. There has been MANY articles and docs on this issue. The resources of prevention are out-of-system not in-system, that is until needed changes are instituted in the system.
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However, we don't have the degree of overcrowding in prisons here in SF that we do in other localities or even statewide or nationally
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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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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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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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We incarcerate at a greater percentage than any of those states. Human rights are not comparably more respected here, that is a american myth. There is no reason for us to behave so brutishly to our own citizens.pic.twitter.com/9a9IsSMbtY
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