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Manifestor_of_Light

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68. Thank you for relating that experience.

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 07:40 PM

Dec 2015

I worked in the court system. I was a court reporter in big city courts, both civil and criminal, for 20 years. Before that I was a legal secretary for my dad. So I haven't seen the inside of the police and corrections systems.

And criminals tend to get more favors if they adopt the overwhelmingly Christian culture promoted in the prison system. Prisoners of other religions or no religion tend to have to sue to get their religious practices accommodated.

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