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Mr_Jefferson_24

(8,559 posts) Sun Sep 20, 2015, 08:21 PM Sep 2015

Tortured & Enslaved: Enter the World's Biggest Prison

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Tortured & Enslaved: Enter the World's Biggest Prison (Original Post) Mr_Jefferson_24 Sep 2015 OP

Such An Example Set By A Supposed Christian Nation cantbeserious Sep 2015 #1

It's both shameful and embarrassing... Mr_Jefferson_24 Sep 2015 #2

Bernie has this on his list! If he wins things are going to get intense for awhile, but that Dustlawyer Sep 2015 #3

I certainly hope disassembling our corrupt mass incarceration... Mr_Jefferson_24 Sep 2015 #4

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

1. Such An Example Set By A Supposed Christian Nation

Reply to Mr_Jefferson_24 (Original post)

Sun Sep 20, 2015, 08:24 PM

Sep 2015

eom

Mr_Jefferson_24

(8,559 posts)

2. It's both shameful and embarrassing...

Reply to cantbeserious (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 20, 2015, 08:25 PM

Sep 2015

...in the extreme.

Dustlawyer

(10,497 posts)

3. Bernie has this on his list! If he wins things are going to get intense for awhile, but that

Reply to Mr_Jefferson_24 (Original post)

Sun Sep 20, 2015, 11:41 PM

Sep 2015

is a good thing. Change is not easy, but imminently necessary for so many reasons!

Mr_Jefferson_24

(8,559 posts)

4. I certainly hope disassembling our corrupt mass incarceration...

Reply to Dustlawyer (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 02:46 PM

Sep 2015

...system is among his high priority initiatives if he's elected. The practice of
prolonged solitary confinement (psychological torture) in particular needs to be stopped -- no civilized
nation should still be subjecting anyone to solitary given what's known about its damaging effects on
the mind.

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