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peasant one

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18. I've always wondered why this isn't discrimination against the poor

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 11:30 PM

Dec 2012

Seems it would make some sense that prisons should have roughly equal numbers of inhabitants from all social strata. If not, then society is not truly "protecting us" from the crimes of the wealthy (which, imho, are legion).

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I've always wondered why this isn't discrimination against the poor peasant one Dec 2012 #18

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