Jeff Sessions just put an Army General in charge of U.S. Federal Prisons.

[SamKnause]

Mark Inch has served as a military policeman and head of Army Corrections.

Inch was previously responsible for detainee operations in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Source: Huffington Post

[elleng]

1. MAYBE he'll adhere to courts' admonishments against CRUEL and UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTs!

[Egnever]

2. A friend said to me once

If you are going to commit a crime make it a federal crime. They have the potential for the best money and if you get caught you have a decent shot at either getting off with a fine or going to a nice Fed summer camp.

I have never been to a FED prison and I am quite sure some of them suck. That advise has always stuck in my head though

[procon]

3. All this militarization of our democratic system of government is troublesome.

Prison reform needs experts in that field who understand the physiology and modern, updated methods that have proved to be effective in obtaining the desired results. Sessions probably expects the military to run prisons like they did at Abu Graibe.

[Raastan]

5. My thoughts, too

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I can assure you that "modern, updated methods" are not important to the for-profit prisons

Some of those for profit state contracts include requirements for the STATE to keep prisons at a certain population or else pay the private company.
Such companies are interested in warehousing inmates, nothing more.
disgusting idea, but it is spreading.

[malaise]

8. And not just in the US

It's frightening

[Solly Mack]

4. SMH

[spanone]

6. coup d'etat