THAT WAS A PESCI PART JEEZ Read more

Sure. She COULD have done that. But ballers gonna ball. Read more

You do not want to do hard time in Texas. The lack of health care and air conditioning will take years off of your life. More then the ones you spend inside. It is atrocious. We can’t even get prisons for kids right.
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I don’t get any of it. Why shouldn’t they be able to play sports or watch TV? Read more

Free online. PBS website or just google it and you’ll find it. Read more

Sentences in this country are draconian to the max. We imprison people for decades and yet people demand more. Other comparable countries, with far less recidivism, imprison people a for fractions of the periods we do. Read more

I love the frontline documentaries- am never dissappointed. And agree 100% with your recommendation Solitary Nation and the accompanying documentary that takes on the prison system more broadly are terrific. Glad to know I’m not alone in my appreciation of these FREE works. PBS forever. Read more

I’d say the problem is where the line is between “redeemable” and “completely broken”.

some people could be argued to be “completely broken” from the get go. Read more

And almost all of them, even killers, are getting out. Read more

No A/C in TX prisons, either. Read more

So, private prisons aren’t spending lots of money to rehabilitate prisoners? Read more

While I think solitary is a terrible practice, especially for extended periods, at what point does the rights of violent inmates to be out of solitary trump the rights of the inmates in general population to have a safe environment? Read more

Did the no one in the administration of this prison ever see The Shawshank Redemption? That poor old dude couldn't handle life on the outside, either. Read more

Solitary confinement as it is currently used is psychological torture. No one familiar with the study of human psychology, and the reality of humans as a social animal, can possibly think that solitary confinement is anything but a horrific and counter-productive tool. Read more

Imagine that http://m.eonline.com/news/42502/gay… Read more

“well if they would just stay out of trouble in the first place we wouldn’t have to throw them in prison” - every conservative ever Read more

Who actually killed the person. Read more

I assume because his crime is relatively minor for such a very long sentence. Read more

Imagine if this dude: Read more