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Bruce A. Liller, Chief of Psychology at North Branch Correctional Institution in Maryland explains why, despite the higher security risk of allowing inmates out of their cells during the day, the practice is necessary. Even though North Branch is a Maximum Security institution, the inmates are not on lock-down 24 hours a day. As Dr. Liller suggests, the psychological well-being of the inmates demands some movement and involvement in activities such as working in the cafeteria, visiting the library, or exercising in the yard. [x]
LTMC: This is the reason why Mississippi was able to shut down one of their Supermax facilities in 2010. They let the prisoners out of their cages and allowed them to move around, play, work, be in the sunlight, and so forth. Each one of those prisoners was supposedly the most dangerous inmates in all of Mississippi. Every one of them was eventually moved back out into the general population. It reduced violence, increased officer safety, and saved the taxpayers money.
When you treat people like animals, they behave like animals as well. It just so happens that treating them like human beings is more cost efficient.
Posted on May 3, 2013 via Fuck Yeah Prison Inmates with 1,168 notes
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Fun Fact: The NRA's new president called the Civil War the "war of northern aggression"
Flabbergasted? No, not really.
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Posted on May 3, 2013 via with 293 notes
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This is far more than a semantic question. Whether something is or is not “terrorism” has very substantial political implications, and very significant legal consequences as well. The word “terrorism” is, at this point, one of the most potent in our political lexicon: it single-handedly ends debates, ratchets up fear levels, and justifies almost anything the government wants to do in its name. It’s hard not to suspect that the only thing distinguishing the Boston attack from Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook and Columbine (to say nothing of the US “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad and the mass killings in Fallujah) is that the accused Boston attackers are Muslim and the other perpetrators are not. As usual, what terrorism really means in American discourse - its operational meaning - is: violence by Muslims against Americans and their allies.
Posted on April 27, 2013 via AZspot with 247 notes
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Posted on April 27, 2013 via Tomb with 161 notes
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I knew it!
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found on my son’s FB wall …
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Republicans rushed to fix the sequester airport delays that were about to impact them, but they refuse to reverse the sequester cuts that will push 140,000 low income families into homelessness.
The Senate voted by unanimous consent last night to restore funding that was cut by the sequester to the FAA, so that they could afford to bring back furloughed air traffic controllers, and the House quickly followed suit today by passing the Senate bill, 361-41. House Republicans are claiming victory, without acknowledging that they were wrong on two counts. They claimed that Obama was exaggerating the impact of the sequester, and they told America that the sequester would be painless.
It’s amazing how quickly Congress can act when something impacts them. (Another example of this was their stealth repeal of the Stock Act.)
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