• @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    we basically passive-aggressively legalized and normalized torture as a punishment…

    something something eight amendment
    “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        the fact that some people aren’t eating has literally nothing to do with grind all of a prisoners food up into a mush just to make sure they can’t enjoy any aspect of it.

        locking someone in a cage is way more than enough punishment.

        we’re supposed to be rehabilitating them so when they reenter society they’re not completely feral

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            31 month ago

            most people in there shouldn’t be in there, many are completely innocent… the united states has the way too many people behind bars and it’s very well documented.
            yeah, they’re not there to enjoy themselves, but they’re not there to be tortured either….

            • MacN'CheezusOP
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              11 month ago

              That may or may not be the case, but there seems to be no point in continuing this discussion here as all of my comments appear to be getting deleted by a mod anyways.

              But yes, I’m sure there’s plenty of people in there who don’t deserve, just as I’m sure that there’s plenty of people on the outside who should be in prison in their stead. And yes, the food does look rather pitiful, but that alone doesn’t look like a human rights violation to me as it seems edible in a pinch.