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In reply to the discussion: I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad -- Then I Went Inside America's Prisons [View all]mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)28. It's important to read this story. I finally finished.
Last edited Sun May 5, 2013, 11:53 PM - Edit history (1)
This is hard to do. American prisons are horror stories. I lived about 50 miles from Attica when the prison uprising took place there. What happened when the state troopers stormed the prison and the aftermath are stories that will turn your stomach and make you weep. It's been in the news lately because it looks as if some sealed reports will finally be publicized.
Man's inhumanity to his fellow man is something I'll never understand. A good husband and father will put on a white robe and participate in a lynching and go home to bed. A prison guard will torture men all day and take his son to a baseball game that night. What kind of sociopathic world do we live in?
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I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad -- Then I Went Inside America's Prisons [View all]
xchrom
May 2013
OP
Worth the read! No surprise this article won an award for journalism. K&R! nt
Poll_Blind
May 2013
#4
OK, OK, maybe three weeks? Look how Chuck Colson changed his whole life...
marble falls
May 2013
#15
When was the last time you heard any progressive views on prison reform....
marble falls
May 2013
#33
I read 5 pages and saved the rest. In so many ways, we are third world.
mountain grammy
May 2013
#10
You need to read "Midnight Express." Life in a Turkish prison, not solitary confinement.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#23
Who said "one standard to measure the greatness of a nation is in the ....
marble falls
May 2013
#14
Read it! Don't just open the thread to see who has made what comment - Read it!
Solly Mack
May 2013
#16
Kick for ending the human rights violation that is solitary confinement.
Comrade Grumpy
May 2013
#22