The Picture: “Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets…A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explained they had ‘no place to put him.'”
Reminds me of something I seen on a tour of Auschwitz a couple of years ago. The similarities brought back a sickening feeling
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I wonder how many of these people are there for “victimless crimes” such as marijuana possession?
The Picture: “Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets…A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explained they had ‘no place to put him.'”
Reminds me of something I seen on a tour of Auschwitz a couple of years ago. The similarities brought back a sickening feeling
I wonder how many of these people are there for “victimless crimes” such as marijuana possession?