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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Replying to @StephenMPinto @6dm4 and
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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Replying to @StephenMPinto @netfire4 and
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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Replying to @StephenMPinto @alexmorcoffee and
Yes we can improve our prison systems. I'd support investment that further speeds up the trial process to minimize pre-trial detention. I'd support investment in anti-recidivism programs. But Latin American prisons are a total shit show. And statistics don't tell the entire story
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We have a criminal injustice masquerading as a functional system. A excessively and unnecessarily cruel system, whos only coherent goal is repression in mass. Latin america's criminal justice system seems more coherent to me than the evil we have in the us.
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