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mike_c

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1. I hate the lifelong persecution of former inmates who have served their time...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Oct 16, 2016, 09:00 PM

Oct 2016

...and been released. It is the worst kind of discrimination. Well, now that I think about it-- it is a sorry reflection upon either our society or our criminal justice system. If we do it just to keep kicking them when they're down and prolong their punishment indefinitely, then it reflects terribly on our culture. If we isolate and ostracize former inmates because the criminal justice system has done nothing to rehabilitate them or prepare them for reentry into freedom, then it is an indictment of our failed criminal justice system.

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I hate the lifelong persecution of former inmates who have served their time... mike_c Oct 2016 #1