The US criminal justice system makes third-world hellholes look enlightened:
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The US criminal justice system makes third-world hellholes look enlightened:
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"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
jfc... being a mother while black/toddler while black:
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"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
While the conditions are deeply problematic, they are a symptom of broken bureaucracy and public sector unions, which make Rikers such a fucking hellhole.
But the person you're quoting wants to use this institutional failure and obvious human crisis as a justification for her quixotic quest to:
1) Abolish prison and
2) Legalize things that most ordinary people would consider to be crimes