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1StrongBlackMan

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7. Are you kidding me? Or, ...

Reply to Luminous Animal (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:32 PM

Mar 2012

just uniformed. Having worked in a prison, I can tell you that minimum security prisons have plenty of sociopaths and predatory inmates.

In fact, many "seasoned" felons will tell you that they would rather be in higher security institutions because there is more security and less random violence than in minimum security institutions.

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Shannyn Moore retweeted me about Tim DeChristopher being put in solitary confinement [View all] Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 OP

It may be ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #1

Protection against who? Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #2

I don't know all the facts, but ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #3

He was in minimum security, thus he was with people similar to his temperament Luminous Animal Mar 2012 #5

Are you kidding me? Or, ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #7

That is not what he was told. And in any case, his isolation is inhumane treatment. Luminous Animal Mar 2012 #4

The email that got him thrown into isolation... Luminous Animal Mar 2012 #6

Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2012 #8

That DeChristopher is in jail, Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 #9

The real conspirators around that auction got to buy their way out of felony charges. EFerrari Mar 2012 #10

Yep. Not only a politcal prisoner but now a victim of the U.S. torture Luminous Animal Mar 2012 #11