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1. boredatoms · 1790270522 · focus · HN ↗

   The US needs to get over this whole ‘punishment’ view of prison. It either a social-safety quarantine, or a rehabilitation

   1. Henchman21 · 1790366194 · focus · HN ↗

      While I agree, it can’t happen. The Puritanical strain runs too deep, to say nothing of Barbary Slave culture which absolutely continues to persist in the South despite slavery being outlawed.

      Punishment is among the most American things that exist — and this is part of the reason I won’t mourn the passing of the US.

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