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29. Well if she really is a grandmother, I don't the problem with providing that information. It makes

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 06:15 PM

Dec 2013

her treatment more than just her problem, it means there are children who probably love her and whose own lives are likely to be adversely affected if they learn that someone they love has been treated this way, as if she were sub-human. When rights are denied to one person, it often doesn't just affect that one person, it affects those in their immediate families, their friends, and then society as a whole.

It doesn't matter, whether she is a grandmother or not, or an ax murderer or a thief, but it adds context to the story and if it brings home the horror of these prisons by allowing people to relate to her in a human way, sometimes people need to know that just because someone committed one crime, doesn't mean we should not care about them, if it humanizes them, then it is a good way to get more attention and empathy for a story that badly needs attention.

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Private Prison Company Allegedly Put 73-Year-Old Grandmother In Solitary Confinement For 34 Days [View all] eridani Dec 2013 OP

All private prisons should be shut down. No one should be profiting from this. They are writing our sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #1

What you said libodem Dec 2013 #2

I'll see your shut 'em down and raise you some treatment for the execs... Systematic Chaos Dec 2013 #3

i positively loathe "reality" teevee.. frylock Dec 2013 #20

Only a psychotic, depraved sick fuck would dare profit from this bullshit Blue Owl Dec 2013 #4

Yes, this story, among so many others, putting a woman in solitary confinement because she tried to sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #7

Well said sabrina. rhett o rick Dec 2013 #5

Thank you, sabrina. For-profit prisons should never, ever have been allowed. nt Hekate Dec 2013 #10

+1 and she wasn't sentenced to death for her crime. Yet they're trying to kill her. n/t freshwest Dec 2013 #45

+1000000000000^10 Initech Dec 2013 #21

Agreed RedCappedBandit Dec 2013 #33

I could not agree more! FiveGoodMen Dec 2013 #34

+ Infinity with a cherry on top, there is no moral or logical reason for the Uncle Joe Dec 2013 #35

+1. Privatization on steroids. As brutal as the rest of the Commons being stolen. n/t freshwest Dec 2013 #46

Make this an OP, sabrina. LAGC Dec 2013 #37

I hope so too. Vashta Nerada Dec 2013 #44

+1,000 malaise Dec 2013 #48

+1 gollygee Dec 2013 #51

+ A shit load! nt Enthusiast Dec 2013 #54

Nobody can explain to me how it's cheaper to hire a company than it is to do it yourself. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2013 #62

Agree. We the people should be responsible for those our Cleita Dec 2013 #63

Her Grandmother status has nothing to do with this case maxsolomon Dec 2013 #6

Which has what, exactly, to do with this story or the issue it raises? n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #9

It's sensationalistic maxsolomon Dec 2013 #16

Yeah, because downplaying your hand in the media is always the winning strategy. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #28

maybe max owns CCA stock. nt grasswire Dec 2013 #39

That's an unfair ad hominem Orrex Dec 2013 #55

Denying her medical care was not part of the sentence. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #57

30 year old ax murderer abused while in prison SoLeftIAmRight Dec 2013 #11

Torture of anyone and all MUST be prohibited - truedelphi Dec 2013 #14

Even the guilty... SoLeftIAmRight Dec 2013 #38

yes that is true. Jailing a convicted person was supposed to truedelphi Dec 2013 #47

That is so true dbackjon Dec 2013 #43

Terrific point. Orrex Dec 2013 #56

She committed a non-violent crime and the for-profit system condemned her to illness and death Hekate Dec 2013 #13

What does that have to do with the topic of the OP? She pled guilty to a crime, does that sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #17

Did I fucking say that? maxsolomon Dec 2013 #18

Well if she really is a grandmother, I don't the problem with providing that information. It makes sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #29

well said, thanks! nt Tumbulu Dec 2013 #36

Wonderful response, Sabrina..........nt Enthusiast Dec 2013 #59

News reports always do that. RebelOne Dec 2013 #41

I think the idea here gollygee Dec 2013 #52

Probably true, but it cuts both ways Orrex Dec 2013 #58

I imagine also that many will make no mention of the actual substance of her complaints LanternWaste Dec 2013 #61

I appreciate her taking a stand against the pro-profit prisons. nt Ilsa Dec 2013 #8

I'll never understand the concept of "private prisons" KansDem Dec 2013 #12

which is the case today Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #27

Yeah, but once you're there, it's the corporation that holds you against you will KansDem Dec 2013 #30

there isn't any which is also the case Niceguy1 Dec 2013 #32

this is some coldhearted shit heaven05 Dec 2013 #15

The kicker is they probably get a larger per diem for keeping her in the hole. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #19

I wondered about that too. n/t Jefferson23 Dec 2013 #23

Misogyny run rampant. WinkyDink Dec 2013 #22

Leave it to a great Los Angeles heavy metal band to tell the truth about private prisons: Initech Dec 2013 #24

Nothing seems to change...have you seen the movie Chatahoochee? HereSince1628 Dec 2013 #25

Shut down all private prisons, but leave one open... CorrectOfCenter Dec 2013 #26

A lot of them do need to be investigated and many most likely do belong in jail. sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #31

I thought the same thing. She just didn't embezzle enough........nt Enthusiast Dec 2013 #60

Would it have been less horrific if the 73 year old woman had no children? nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2013 #40

What we've got here is failure to communicate. lpbk2713 Dec 2013 #42

wow. this is the right and ethical way to get somethi g done BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2013 #49

Jesus, save us from these monsters................nt Enthusiast Dec 2013 #50

We need to recognize that this is only the beginning of the atrocities. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #53