Subduction Zone
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This event occurred in a jail. Not in a prison. Most people in jail have not been convicted. Some of them are even innocent. And for many the punishment is so minor that if they cannot bail out time served is more than enough to let them go. This person appears to have been arrested for a rather minor crime. And they jail went against their onw policies and according to reports a person watched for a while rather than intervening. If you were innocent, or even guilty of only a minor infraction and found yourself in jail does that take away all of your rights?Our prisons are a mess in the US. Prison reform is so low on the totem pole here it's ridiculous. Prisons and jails are nothing but cesspools of violence, drugs and more crime. Prisoners are NOT rehabilited and often come out far worse than when they went in.
I don't know why people are so bent out of shape over this transgender getting beat up. People are beaten up everyday in prison. Transgender or not. People are raped in prison all the time. People are stabbed and killed there. Prison is a sick and twisted place from the guards to the prisoners.
I say all if that to say prisons are necessary to remove the dangerous from the population. The guy that just killed all those people at the Christmas parade? He should have been in prison. He was a bad person.
That being said, prisons are poorly run poorly funded and do little to nothing about setting people on a better path.
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