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I don't care if the facial recognition worked exactly as it was supposed to, with 100% accuracy (I know, we are in fantasy land here, but stay with this hypothetical), WTF? Nobody in jail deserves that. Also I'm thinking, does everyone who goes to that jail get beat up and gang raped? It just makes news if it's the "wrong" guy?
There's a great show on Netflix called '60 days in'. It's silly and exploitative on the surface but read between the lines and you will learn a lot about the justice system in US. It's basically designed to dehumanize and torture people with no presumption of innocence or any safeguards. The only goal is to punish as many people as possible. That's what the society expects from it and people that run it are happy to deliver.
This is why I personally don't believe in jail/prison. Rehabilitation, yes. Jail or prison? No. I'm no professional but I feel as though I have seen countless studies about how our prison system is a failure and how all it does is set people up to come back. That doesn't even touch on private prisons and their financial incentives to get people back into the system.
I live in Spain and I remember seeing a story in the local newspaper about a guy complaining that he was released from prison before he could finish some professional course he was doing (he got ~2 year sentence). He said that outside of prison he can't afford this type of education he was getting there for free. Just imagine, prison was actually offering him a way to a better job and life later. And that's not even the famous Norway, just normal Spain. This is how it should work. Locking up people just so they suffer for a bit is sick and pointless.
Learning about norway made me a prison reformist, learning about the US prison system made me an abolitionist. I’m skeptical that the leviathan of the prison-industrial complex can be reformed.
Our system is so fucked up its insane. Inside, it’s terrible. Outside? Good luck getting a job with a criminal record. It’ll force you to steal to live, then you’ll be thrown back in.
Eric King is an ex political prisoner who has just recently been released, and he has been on a ton of leftist and anarchist podcasts in the past two or three weeks. His interview with The Final Straw Radio gives good insights on how halfway houses suck, and his interview with IGD is a good eye inside prison.
Fuck prisons, fuck cops, this shit sucks.
Unfortunately big issue is that 'tough on crime' resonates very well with the general public. 65% of Americans still believe death penalty is morally justified. There's no hope for any reform if most people don't want one.
It's like America wants to create terrorists.
About that
They actually do. It perpetuates profits for the MIC.
It's also a good way to keep us proles in line
He will have some cash to fund it.
They'll probably join forces with Mexican Joker.
10M isn't enough for this shit...
No amount of money is.
The courts will run with this logic and award him nothing.
I'm not surprised to hear this took place in Texas. Southerners seem to see jail and prison violence as a feature rather than an issue.
Okay, but why are the store and the loss prevention agencies the ones being sued? Not saying they are 100% innocent, but isn't the real blame here on the law enforcement system, for jailing someone based on such lousy evidence and for allowing such things to happen in jail?
Because thats not a lawsuit you win. The fact that law enforcement can arrest you on almost nothing is a feature of the system not a bug. They can cuff you for no reason and as soon as your in cuffs you're presumed to be a danger and guilty, as policy. They're not a court they have no obligation to assume anyone is innocent.
If it was proven he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment while incarcerated, you absolutely can sue for that and you can win.
Ah, the good'ol Jail and Rape
These pseudo identification systems have been around in police TV shows for 40 years, so of course a nobody in front of a system that says "there is a match" will get excited about it and won't change his mind. Unless it is a blonde young lady or grey haired old caucasian, the police won't have second thoughts either. What a fucked up reality
Doesn't an arrest warrant need to be signed off by someone who looks for actual police work? "The store said it's this guy" would seem to fall short.
You’re assuming no judge has ever rubber stamped a warrant without reading it?…
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