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In reply to the discussion: The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons [View all]Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)30. Google "Straight, Inc" and "Mel Sembler"
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And yet we have DUers who will defend private prisons all the way to spittle flecked irrationality..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#2
I was watching the exchange and concluded you were talking to someone in the private prison business
NNN0LHI
May 2012
#19
How about group home employees doing it to developmentally disabled clients? It happens.
freshwest
May 2012
#31
not to mention decades of encroachment of the line between children and adults in the justice
HiPointDem
May 2012
#12
so is the prohibition of child labor. so is social security. so is the vote for women. etc.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#39
no, i understood your point, such as it was. i just see it as an attempt to minimalize the
HiPointDem
May 2012
#55
I saw the picture of the old time prisons below - what came to mind is that back then they put
jwirr
May 2012
#21
During college, I was privileged to work at a detention center for juveniles.
YellowRubberDuckie
May 2012
#23
If you don't want to be tortured, killed, maimed or locked in a room w no food or water for 5 days
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#46