"For an educated middle-class woman to face public arrest and a strip search is almost unimaginable"

[sabrina 1]

79. Thank you. I guess when people have been abused over a long period of time, either as individuals

or as a nation, they become accepting of the abuse, unable to envision a better life. I have seen the US population described as similar to 'abused spouses' in their acceptance of the gross abuses inflicted on them, in so many aspects of their lives, abuses most developed countries are horrified by.

Defending such abuses is simply part of the syndrome of people who have become so used to the pattern of abuse, they are almost afraid to change things.

When I was a child I associated strip searching with the Nazis and was horrified by it. When I learned it was customary in our prison system, I was equally horrified.

We should be ashamed, but we would have to an informed population to experience shame. We are so insular here and seem to have no idea of how a decent society can function. Certainly this one isn't functioning very well, we have the highest incarceration rate in the history of the world. Either that means we totally failed as a nation and are producing more criminals than any other nation in the world, or something has gone very wrong with our justice system.