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RebelOne

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41. News reports always do that.

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 07:21 PM

Dec 2013

The 25-year-old mother, the 30-year-old father, the 80-year-great-grandmother, and so on.

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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