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Gormy Cuss

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Reply to TorchTheWitch (Reply #17)

Thu Nov 14, 2013, 11:29 AM

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Man Was Sentenced to Die in Prison for Shoplifting a $159 Jacket: This Happens More Than You Think [View all] xchrom Nov 2013 OP

Mandatory sentence? - WTF? liberal N proud Nov 2013 #1

+1 xchrom Nov 2013 #3

It's not just the south. ET Awful Nov 2013 #5

There is a reason that shoplifting and crimes like this are classified as felonies... cascadiance Nov 2013 #16

Great informative post ! Thanks ! BlueJazz Nov 2013 #19

Or we need to rewrite the "citizen's arrest" laws Pab Sungenis Nov 2013 #21

the private prison industrial complex also benefits plenty from laws like this phantom power Nov 2013 #28

NY state has an "E felony" KamaAina Nov 2013 #31

What kind of system is this? A very corrupt and unjust one. myrna minx Nov 2013 #2

+1 Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #46

That's so wrong! B Calm Nov 2013 #4

All in the name of PROFIT tecelote Nov 2013 #6

It's not just privatized prisons ... TBF Nov 2013 #13

Angola is not privatized. subterranean Nov 2013 #27

Less than 4% of all convicts in this nation are incarcerated in a privately held for-profit prison. Ikonoklast Nov 2013 #32

Since when is Angola a privatized prison? Recursion Nov 2013 #40

OK, so what corporation is making big bucks off this prison? fasttense Nov 2013 #7

It's state-run and state-operated Recursion Nov 2013 #39

Everyone in the system likes these laws AngryAmish Nov 2013 #44

Where is the rest of his story? seveneyes Nov 2013 #8

Yep pipoman Nov 2013 #9

Those 3-Strike laws are the exact sort of laws that led to the American Revolution. ieoeja Nov 2013 #25

I have somewhat mixed feelings about that.. pipoman Nov 2013 #29

Most career criminals quit in their 30s. The best remedy for speeding that up was rehabilitation. ieoeja Nov 2013 #45

Meanwhile the bankers walk the street and continue robbing malaise Nov 2013 #10

All The While The Corporations Proifit From His Incarceration cantbeserious Nov 2013 #11

Angola is owned by the state of Louisiana. Ikonoklast Nov 2013 #33

Then Why Is Prison Enterprises Part Of The Picture cantbeserious Nov 2013 #47

Land of the free? Home of the brave? Madmiddle Nov 2013 #12

Undoubtedly. dotymed Nov 2013 #23

What percentage of the 3281 prisoners are white? AAO Nov 2013 #14

Need we ask. I bet its at most 20%. marble falls Nov 2013 #15

You're gonna love this: Brigid Nov 2013 #34

I think we need a jailbreak. That is about what I'd imagined, though. Ruining peoples lives because AAO Nov 2013 #41

meanwhile a rapist coach that served TorchTheWitch Nov 2013 #17

+1 n/t Gormy Cuss Nov 2013 #24

k/r marmar Nov 2013 #18

This, and the fact minor offences can lead to life imprisonment in the USA ConcernedCanuk Nov 2013 #20

Jean Valjean - for a loaf of bread packman Nov 2013 #22

this is disgusting gopiscrap Nov 2013 #26

"You have to realize / What is a form of slavery organized / under a swarm of devils..." alcibiades_mystery Nov 2013 #30

Jail for shoplifters is bullshit. Chuck Smythe Nov 2013 #35

And the bankers and rapists walk freely. City Lights Nov 2013 #36

And so do George W. Bush, Cheney and Condi Rice. avaistheone1 Nov 2013 #37

Silly me for forgetting America's War Criminals! City Lights Nov 2013 #42

Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Chuck Smythe Nov 2013 #38

Hiya, Chuck Smythe! City Lights Nov 2013 #43

kick. (nt) Nine Nov 2013 #48