re: Cruel confinement in Alabama prisons

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Considering the high number of non-violent offenders that we lock up... I would say that we should provide for basic sanitation and healthcare.

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agreed. that article sickens me. I think what if one of my brothers or some other relative got wrongfully or even correctly convicted of a non violent type of felony. I would be physically sickened thinking of them or any one really being treated like that.

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Then again... Alabama is kind of a 3rd world country.

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Same could be said of Louisiana. (and I'm a Louisiana native). I wonder if the same conditions exist in Louisiana and Mississippi.