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WCDT 4431-4435 (4th-8th of January, 2021)

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Case:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Jan 2021, 21:05 ---
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 06 Jan 2021, 11:06 ---In a country where marijuana possession is perfectly legal in many places.

System is badly fucked, needs immediate and drastic reform.

--- End quote ---

Prison industrial complex.
The 14th Amendment has a caveat; "except as punishment for a crime."

--- End quote ---

So does the Basic Law. Still no prison-industrial complex. (Not that there aren't noxious weeds in the Garden of Eden that I'm unhappy with, but nothing remotely on the same scale)

snubnose:
I've never been arrested, I've never even visited the USA either, and I've always been very vocal about US prisons.

I think any decent person who informs themselves about US prisons will object to them.

Out of the top of my head:
- The USA has five times more inmates than the world average. No other country has such a high rate of prison inmates.
- The USA exploits their prison population for slave work, directly violating human rights.
- The USA has no plans for reintegrating people after prison. Frankly they'd love you to come back.
- The USA takes away the right to vote permanently. You're supposed to be rehabilitated and get a new chance after the penalty.

Thats not like it is in other countries. Heck, in most countries you can still vote even *during* a prison sentence.

The cause for these circumstances is for example famously the crime bill (1994) by a certain Joseph "Joe" Biden, if you have ever heard of him, with such absurd, obviously unjust rules such as three strikes.

I really should also point out that putting people in prison is hella expensive. You have to build prisons, which are much more expensive than regular houses, and you have to have sufficient numbers of prison guards to watch the inmates 24/7, which is also very expensive. So it would be much cheaper to give these people a regular job.

And yet the USA has the money to pay for this elaborate prison system, while at the same time the USA doesnt have the money to give their children good schools.

The point of having prisons is to handle people who didnt follow the rules of society, with the goal to make these people follow the rules of society. The point is not to still have slavery through the backdoor.

Gnabberwocky:
I realized something about Robot Jail: we do have one tiny piece of information about it, sourced from this comic.


--- Quote from: May ---Girl, I just got outta ROBOT JAIL. You know what you don't get in there? PRIVACY.
--- End quote ---

So whatever Robot Jail is, its special form of dehumanization involves violating the prisoners' privacy at constant intervals. It just keeps getting worse.

sitnspin:
Human prison has no privacy, either.

Gnabberwocky:
True, but I was trying to point out that what this means is our earlier hypothesis about Robot Jail being "torturously long periods of isolation" is probably incorrect. I'd say it's probably more like "no control over your own thoughts or actions."

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