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In reply to the discussion: The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)54. That is so sad
Have a family member on the way to celebrate a nephew's Ph.D. She is elderly with heart trouble. Hope this isn't the new standard for graduation themes.
That's one day you want to be full of joy for the accomplishments of your loved one. Instead you end up feeling like someone has left a layer of oily evil on you.
I can understand that there may be violent people who would disrupt events. We live in strange times. But plots against crowds are presumably stopped in order not to destroy the occasion for the attendees. That we would trade one sort of abuse for another on what should be a happy, peaceful day says a lot about humankind.
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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