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sibelian

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18. Well, I don't want to be Pollyanna-ish

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #11)

Sun Jun 30, 2013, 06:40 PM

Jun 2013

but at least things like this provide a model for improvement elsewhere. The prison-industrial complex is delegitimised by systems like this and that's good. I saw news that contracts that some US states had with some private prisons were ending as well... not sure if I coudl find these articles for you quickly, though...

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Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals [View all] trusty elf Jun 2013 OP

Oh, those poor prisons! Scootaloo Jun 2013 #1

Those soshulist you're-a-peons have no entrepreneurial spirit. trusty elf Jun 2013 #2

The Netherlands sounds like a cool country Art_from_Ark Jun 2013 #3

well, that's just 'cause the bakufu didn't want the daimyo converting and having independent MisterP Jun 2013 #16

Well, gee, maybe they knew about what the Spaniards and Portuguese Art_from_Ark Jul 2013 #19

despite the Iberian enormities in the Americas and Philippines, the shoguns' motives were domestic MisterP Jul 2013 #20

"Domestic" motives included fending off foreign religious zealots Art_from_Ark Jul 2013 #21

The headline sounds almost Onionesque. n/t trusty elf Jun 2013 #4

It's wonderful. sibelian Jun 2013 #5

I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee Cirque du So-What Jun 2013 #11

Well, I don't want to be Pollyanna-ish sibelian Jun 2013 #18

Doesn't it, though? Cirque du So-What Jun 2013 #10

This could never happen here burnodo Jun 2013 #6

Except for the lieutenant governor of my state. TexasTowelie Jun 2013 #7

We could offer to send them our banksters and war criminals. trusty elf Jun 2013 #8

If we did that, The Netherlands would need to build more prisons. Orrex Jun 2013 #9

This is from 19/5/2009 and is posted in an "archief" (archive). SwissTony Jun 2013 #12

Oh, you're right. trusty elf Jun 2013 #14

They just didn't grasp the beauty of privatizing the prison system. Coccydynia Jun 2013 #13

They got weed and good jobs and most importantly good will towards each other Rain Mcloud Jun 2013 #15

OMG, these people need to make pot a felony and protesting a bank the same as treason STAT! ck4829 Jun 2013 #17

the Netherlands' religious tolerance thing is true, to some extent, but elehhhhna Jul 2013 #22

You stayed! sibelian Jul 2013 #23

lol elehhhhna Jul 2013 #24

It's allowed. sibelian Jul 2013 #25