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Initech

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3. We need to go after the ultra corrupt companies that run these prisons.

Reply to davidn3600 (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 01:37 PM

Sep 2014

They're the real criminals in all of this.

I am seriously more afraid of the police and the for profit prison system than I am of any number of terrorist groups in the world. For profit prisons and education have done far more damage to our country than Al Qaeda or Isis could ever dreamed of.

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Florida cracking down on inmate abuse by guards...11 guards arrested so far; multiple firings [View all] davidn3600 Sep 2014 OP

K&R ~nt~ 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #1

My boyfriend's son libodem Sep 2014 #2

We need to go after the ultra corrupt companies that run these prisons. Initech Sep 2014 #3

I do not commit crime so I am not afraid of the police... Mercy_Queen Sep 2014 #5

I don't either. Initech Sep 2014 #6

Looking at a cop wrongly can be a capital crime dickthegrouch Sep 2014 #7

There are a lot of innocent dead people out there - and IdaBriggs Sep 2014 #8

The only people who watched Shawshank Redemption and sided with the warden and the guards. nt tridim Sep 2014 #4