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ahmeneeroe-v2last Thursday at 5:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

Often that reason is "committed a horrific violent crime"


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kelnoslast Thursday at 5:47 PM

Not really? I mean, when you compare the number of people who have committed a "horrific violent" crime to the total number of people caught up in the US prison system, I expect it's not "often".

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Ylpertnodilast Thursday at 5:50 PM

Weed, though. In some states, now legal.

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lanyard-textilelast Thursday at 5:45 PM

Often it is.

Often it is not.

Often, they too are a victim of our judicial system, and we can't just ignore them due to the peers we locked them in with.