In case you ever wondered why there is so much body building equipment in American prisons:<\/p>\n
After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department<\/a> came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted [raped] multiple times over the course of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Republican Party is hell-bent-for-leather eager to privatize prisons<\/a>. The private business prisons are hell-bent-for-leather eager to send more criminals<\/a> to private prison.<\/p>\n
Twelve years ago<\/em>, back when I was still a Republican I asked This American Life<\/strong> if I could have a copy of their Broadcast on prison life<\/a> to reproduce and send out to my fellow Republicans before the next Republican precinct caucus. They gave me a thumbs up and sent me the tape but I never reproduced it or followed through. I’d recommend listening to it here<\/a>. The segment on Cablock is so funny you’ll get a hernia laughing at it. You’ll also get excellent advice about how to prepare to be gang raped in prison. Its quite graphic.<\/p>\n
Hot Dam! I should be elected to Congress for a couple years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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