Next up on NPR: We profile John (The mild moderate-conservative alternative to Trump) Kasich.

1. I don’t think life without the possibility of parole is a fair or just sentence for a minor. I think they should be afforded the opportunity both to reform and to demonstrate their reform. I don’t think sentencing teenagers to die in prison makes sense, especially when they would still need to demonstrate that they…

Tell them you hired a nice woman from Central America.

Exactly. Their vote told me how much they give a shit about my daughter’s life.

Fuck ‘em. Let daddy Trump take care of them. Tell her trashy ass about bootstraps.

You’re right, that was the joke but I appreciate Mondo’s follow up comment.

Yup. Which is why I’m taking great joy in refusing to hire my sister in law to clean our house a couple times a month even though her shitbag lazy husband just got laid off. Petty? I don’t think so.

Well by contrast, that means literally every Somali-American lawmaker in American history has faced harassment based on race or perceived religion since the election of Donald Trump.

further evidence of the rabidly increased volume of threats and hate speech that have been flying around the country since Donald Trump was elected president.

Trump supporters and voters are racist, dirt leg scumbags. All of them. No exceptions.

As someone who has done time in jail, not prison, they give you a handbook that essentially tells you that if you are small in stature to watch out. The penalty, at least where I am at, for jail rape is the same as smoking a cigarette. 30 days in “the hole”. It is also a criminal offense to take this book out of the…

It’s such a fundamental disagreement over what our prison system is for, and what results we want out of it. People tend to say that they want prisons to rehabilitate people and reduce recidivism, but our actions and our policies show that what we really want as a society is to punish people.

Thank you so much for always highlighting JDI, Hamilton. I’m currently doing post-conviction work with people sentenced to LWOP sentences as minors - imagine being tried as an adult and sent to adult prison at 15, 16, or 17 years old. Imagine being told you’re going to die in prison before you’re old enough to vote or…

This x1000. But the truth is American prison isn’t about reform, it’s punishment and getting undesireables out of sight. Positive changes are a hard sell and just get labeled as ‘coddling criminals.’

Hell, it’s pretty much a joke. Is your character going to prison? Have him freak out and grab his butt! It’s almost internalized by society as just another part of your punishment when you’re sent to prison. Did you rob someone? 5yrs in a jail with some rape sprinkled in.

That’s because so many bloodthirsty people disagree with that part of the Constitution that any amount of prison reform is vastly unpopular. Look at some of the comments on this article, for example.

This always dogged me as a glaring contradiction. They know prisoners are being sexually assaulted, to such a degree that it is well known throughout our culture, and yet so little is done about it.

We’re a society that throws people away. Rob a store when you’re 19? Spend years in prison being raped, mentally, and physically beaten, and told you are human garbage. Then when they’ve served their debt to society, slap them with a permanent “felon” label, strip their voting rights away, and then have the audacity…

This is a wonderful idea. I sent one. Our constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment, and that includes preventing sexual harm from happening to prisoners.

Cracked #3, so great: