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   comYics said, 27 days ago

   Shouldnt they have that ( ) on both prisons…..

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   cdward said, 26 days ago

   Is there something in the recent news about this being more prevalent in women’s prisons? I haven’t read it.

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   Fairportfan2 said, 26 days ago

   comYics: I think that’s the point of “…the food is lousy too” - just one more thing they have in common.

   That said - in men’s prisons the guards may be a little less likely to join the fun.

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   cabrobst said, 26 days ago

   But not by much.
   Ask yourself, who is more likely to want to make a career of seeing men naked?

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   jonathandough said, 26 days ago

   cabrobst-
   proctologists

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   motivemagus said, 26 days ago

   I can’t find the latest percentages, but I found a 2007 study that indicated 4.5% of inmates reported sexual victimization in the previous 12 months. Five of the ten with highest reporting rates were in – wait for it – Texas. “Texas has a crowded state prison system with a long and notorious history of prison violence, marked by staff indifference to and complicity with abuse.”
   http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-show-widespread-prison-rape

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   dtroutma said, 26 days ago

   Texas also has a privately run “corporate” prison system.

   Just saw last night a blurb that the Las Vegas COUNTY JAIL, has over 3,000 inmates. Part of the problem, a very BIG part, is just how many people we have locked up in our country- many are part of that issue of not prosecuting medical marijuana and focusing efforts instead on REAL criminals who ARE dangerous.

   Years ago it was not a “dilemma” for me to lock up a truly bad person, and give a guy (or gal) just smoking a joint a ticket and letting them go. Our current system, LED BY states like Texas, is locking away people who pose little or no threat, and the “really bad guys” are let go because there is no room left. It is when prisons and courts,(remember the judges that had the deal with “private prisons” to lock up juveniles and throw the key away) are taken over for profit, that danger lurks.

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   Ken Warren said, 26 days ago

   It’s strange how some people think that if you let prisons get bad enough that it will somehow reduce crime.

   We have many problems to solve, and prisons are probably at the bottom of the list, but that doesn’t mean we should deny that there is a problem.

   When someone climbs out of a cesspool they usually stink, are sick, and very angery, and not ready to become good citizens.

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   Sooky Rottweiler's ... said, 25 days ago

   Man, am I glad to live in Canada…

   Our jail stntences are too short here, if you ask me, but we figured out long ago that jail is also the school of crime. Send one there one 18-year-old arrested for smoking pot and in the end, he might know how to rob a bank because he learned it from his cell mates…
   Plus, he may get recruited by organized crime (up here, the bleeep Angels are the most notorious ones).

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    DrCanuck said, 25 days ago

    Canada is effectively dealing with crime through education rather than punishment. Lighter sentences, humane treatment, the incarcerated are educated in trades and degrees, and taught social skills. They leave prison, get jobs, and become taxpaying citizens, paying back our investment in them. Recidivism rates are less than half that of the U.S.

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    d_legendary1 said, 25 days ago

    @DrCan We’d rather keep them ignorant and violent and put them back in society so that the right wingers have something to cry about.