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Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts) Sun Nov 4, 2018, 09:25 PM Nov 2018

Went to a Beto rally. I did not realize that the number 1 health provider in Texas

Is the County Jail system.
That is staggering.

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Went to a Beto rally. I did not realize that the number 1 health provider in Texas (Original Post) Horse with no Name Nov 2018 OP

sounds like texas has a cash bail system that keeps unconvicted ppl in jail while they msongs Nov 2018 #1

Mental health provider. Most likely the first provider most metally ill see. marble falls Nov 2018 #2

Kind of Ironic. It's Socialism by incarceration. bitterross Nov 2018 #3

msongs

(67,420 posts)

1. sounds like texas has a cash bail system that keeps unconvicted ppl in jail while they

Reply to Horse with no Name (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2018, 09:28 PM

Nov 2018

wait for any trial because they dont have the cash to bail themselves out. then they lose their jobs, their places to live, their families, not because they are guilty but because they cant bail themselves out

marble falls

(57,114 posts)

2. Mental health provider. Most likely the first provider most metally ill see.

Reply to Horse with no Name (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2018, 09:41 PM

Nov 2018

bitterross

(4,066 posts)

3. Kind of Ironic. It's Socialism by incarceration.

Reply to Horse with no Name (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2018, 11:26 PM

Nov 2018

They don't want to provide health care for people but they're damn happy to lock people up for every minor thing in the world. Especially brown and black people.

Seems kind of appropriate that when they do that they're forced to give the very people they don't want having health care
- health care.

Makes me laugh inside.

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