Prisoners refused food, demanding changes to solitary confinement. Now they are pushing to end the practice altogether.
  • TheCaconym [any]
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    1 年前

    Reminder that solitary confinement is literally torture, and a particularly pernicious and horrible form of it at that

    It is never acceptable, in any context

  • WhiteMoldOptions [any]
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    1 年前

    i almost went right into solitary because dudes were hassling me in the drunk tank. zero charges. nothing wrong with me. just didn't like rape threats etc.

      • WhiteMoldOptions [any]
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        1 年前

        but they put me in minimum sec instead. i had the first male bonding experience of my life.

        • WhiteMoldOptions [any]
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          1 年前

          then everyone was amazed how fast they let the crazy white boy out. they'd never seen it. there was a guy I saw refusing withdrawal meds & refused release. madman

            • WhiteMoldOptions [any]
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              1 年前

              they were so nice to me i wish i could have gotten to know everyone in jail.

              • WhiteMoldOptions [any]
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                1 年前

                they only had dumb christian rehabcore books. if they gave those guys Kwame Nkrumah and Domenico Losurdo and Immanuel Wallerstein and Michael Hudson and other marxist/neo-marxist/MMT history books... guys communist prison would be insane. we'd make warriors

                • WhiteMoldOptions [any]
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                  1 年前

                  you could change the world by becoming a communist book warrior and getting arrested for public drunkenness i'm not kidding. just a few hours with those men. feel like pure shit just want to be in jail again