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Rex

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3. Jail and prison are lethal places through and through, why has it taken society so long to notice

Reply to artislife (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 27, 2015, 05:04 PM

Jul 2015

is my question. Prison is where the Establishment sends perfectly healhty black males to go off and die or suffer from negligence or malnutrition. That has been going on (noticed in the mainstream media many times now) since the 1980s...why the decades of slience?

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Just another Black woman in jail dying [View all] artislife Jul 2015 OP

Wow, so no apparent cause of death? She just died...move on then? Rex Jul 2015 #1

It is developing artislife Jul 2015 #2

Jail and prison are lethal places through and through, why has it taken society so long to notice Rex Jul 2015 #3

The veils are lifting artislife Jul 2015 #4

I hope so, the times need a changing and ASAP. Rex Jul 2015 #5

how many more? niyad Jul 2015 #6

There is a pattern here Gothmog Jul 2015 #7