[bokoharambe]

American prisons violate any notion of humaneness and rights from the outset. The abject subjects who are condemned to dwell in them cannot be used to illustrate anything about civil rights, other than the fact that the state regularly uses its sovereign power to violate them.

If I was under constant threat of rape or murder, I would do anything to get to a situation that I thought might be less dangerous.

[zippipi]

Are you aware of why prisons are, or were up until recently in some states, segregated by sex - why we have separate female and male prisons?

[bokoharambe]

Prisons should not exist.