The prison in this story, Holman Correctional Facility, houses both minimum and maximum custody prisoners. I guess you could argue that their housed apart, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t both subjected to the same institutional abuses like no AC.  

So it’s o.k. to dehumanize non-violent offenders because they’re locked up with violent ones who deserve it.

The goalposts you originally set up were at least 100 miles away from where you just reposted them. Impressive.

Google “Netherlands corrections.” They have a rehabilitative approach and a lower recidivism rate.

Uh, no. That’s absurd. You ethically do not have the right to treat a human like garbage because they owned some marijuana.

52% in state prisons are violent.

You have the wrong person. I didn’t make that comment, I just asked if you consider them human. You still haven’t answered (but you really have).

Nonviolent drug and immigration offenses make up over 60% of the national prison population.

I think there’s a lot of room between ‘exact same rights as citizens’ and dehumanized non-citizens being held within the U.S. Sure, we restrict rights for people who break crimes. We also restrict rights for children and the mentally ill or unfit. Restricting rights for punitive purposes makes sense but treating…

To what end though? I mean, what do you think society gets out of “punishing” prisoners? Does it serve any practical purpose whatsoever?

No, that is not at all true. You are still a citizen if you are incarcerated. You still have rights. Inmates are not to be treated like animals. You want someone locked up for, say, dealing drugs, to be tortured and to devolve psychologically for five years and then be let out to live among you? That makes no sense.

Whatever crime they committed, the overwhelming majority will re-enter society some day. Do you think emphasizing punishment via dehumanization is what will turn prisoners into productive citizens ready to contribute to society and avoid victimizing again? Or does reintegration into society take a back seat to…

That’s a very shortsighted view. Most prisoners are eventually released and it would be infinitely better to have rehabilitated ex-cons rather than career criminals in our midst.

If the goal of prison is simply to punish people as harshly as possible than we are doing a bang-up job.

That well known human Marijuana...

Forget videos of officers playing a game of basketball with “city youths” or pretending to pull black people over but handing them ice cream, this is how you build community trust and put skin in the game.

Remember when Bibi blamed Palestinians for the Holocaust? He’ll literally let Hitler off the hook to shit on Palestine. Trump’s anti-Semitism is small beer.

He could have skipped a meeting with Trump, who is not a world leader himself and hopefully never will be.

It’s worth pointing out the disparity between Trump’s position on NATO and his support for Israel.

This represents a purposeful shift in Republican policy, not by Trump so much, but by the Republican Party itself. The Republican Party’s national platform for 2016 was changed from the 2012 language with regard to many things related to Israel (it’s shockingly extreme actually), but particularly regarding the status…