A brief look at prison and inmate issues cannot produce many answers, but it will highlight disturbing issues about prisons; inmate labor, inmates serving time for drug offenses, the disproportionate headcount of black inmates, and the proportion of mentally ill inmates. The keystone issue is to decide on the purpose of prisons and determine how […]
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Warden — Not So Quick Please
Our federal politicians are posing as compassionate prison wardens by cutting sentencing in drug cases and with early release. It may shock defense attorneys, but the taxpaying public allocates prison money to protect those on the outside, not to coddle those on the inside. Prison is only incidentally a cultural club, gymnasium, study hall and […]