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Originally Posted by Undertoad

There's one other thing I find remarkable about this thread. A few miles north of here is Graterford State Prison. I have no doubt that it is one of the ugliest hell-holes in the state and that 9 out of 10 inmates could complain about abuse far, far, FAR worse than anything we're talking about here.
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Hypocrisy.

If we want to discuss the disgusting state of our domestic prisons, I'm happy to rail against that as well. But since that is more of a continual than a current event, that discusion wouldn't have the linky goodness of recent reports. I'd love for a national debate to start over improving prison conditions.

However, even taking into account the flaws in the judicial system, prison inmates have been tried and convicted, and aren't merely suspects. And the majority of prison abuse is (I suspect, not know for certain) negligence, willful or not, rather than action on the part of the guards. The sheer scale of the prison problem makes up for that difference, though.