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davidpdx

(22,000 posts) Tue Apr 7, 2015, 04:50 AM Apr 2015

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Fareed Zakaria on the US prison system

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/tv/2015/04/04/exp-gps-0405-witw.cnn.html

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Fareed Zakaria on the US prison system (Original Post) davidpdx Apr 2015 OP

John Oliver once did a great segment on cruelty to and abuses of prisoners on his HBO show. merrily Apr 2015 #1

He quoted Pat Robertson in 2012 jakeXT Apr 2015 #2

The graph shown looks eerily similar to defense spending by the US compared to other nations. jalan48 Apr 2015 #3

merrily

(45,251 posts)

1. John Oliver once did a great segment on cruelty to and abuses of prisoners on his HBO show.

Reply to davidpdx (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2015, 05:25 AM

Apr 2015

Many of the statistics cited by Zakaria were in that show.

(Full disclosure. I enjoy Oliver a lot more than Zakaria.)

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

2. He quoted Pat Robertson in 2012

Reply to merrily (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 7, 2015, 10:52 AM

Apr 2015

jalan48

(13,842 posts)

3. The graph shown looks eerily similar to defense spending by the US compared to other nations.

Reply to davidpdx (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2015, 11:20 AM

Apr 2015

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