Life in Solitary

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MJK 24

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5,648 posts

236 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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On BBC2 now.

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TheLordJohn

5,746 posts

146 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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MJK 24 said:
On BBC2 now.

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I'm sure they deserve to rot in there.
I don't know the statistics for innocents incarcerated in the US, though.
And if they pissed, st and flooded the place, I'd leave all that as well. Just let them live in it until they give in a broken man.

Edited by TheLordJohn on Sunday 21st September 21:23

bigandclever

13,788 posts

238 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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TheLordJohn said:
I'm sure they deserve to rot in there.
I don't know the statistics for innocents incarcerated in the US, though.
And if they pissed, st and flooded the place, I'd leave all that as well. Just let them live in it until they give in a broken man.
That's kind of the point ... they already are broken. So, clearly, the next obvious step is to release them back into the general population, right? Absolutely nothing can go wrong there.

Laurel Green

30,779 posts

232 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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"Have a good weekend" Well, you sure wouldn't want to have a pint with any of them.

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

170 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Have to say its one serious problem.

There are many, many people that are beyond help, so what happens to them?

rollondeath

317 posts

119 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Alucidnation said:
Have to say its one serious problem.

There are many, many people that are beyond help, so what happens to them?
Donate them to medical science.

andymc

7,356 posts

207 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Some do 7 to 8 years in solitary and are then released...

Matt_N

8,902 posts

202 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Grim but intriging viewing.

Inmate Beaumount (?) who had 90 days until his release yikes imagine him back in the real world!

joema

2,648 posts

179 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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bigandclever said:
TheLordJohn said:
I'm sure they deserve to rot in there.
I don't know the statistics for innocents incarcerated in the US, though.
And if they pissed, st and flooded the place, I'd leave all that as well. Just let them live in it until they give in a broken man.
That's kind of the point ... they already are broken. So, clearly, the next obvious step is to release them back into the general population, right? Absolutely nothing can go wrong there.
I guess he is commenting without actually having watched it? typical...

There have been a few documentaries in recent months on the bbc about US justice system, intriuging and mostly disturbing

Dog Star

16,132 posts

168 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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That was a bit bonkers - there is 100% no doubt in my mind that solitary makes them much much worse (bear in mind that I consider Hitler to be a lily-livered liberal) but what on earth can you do with them? That chap Adam - he seemed to be the most normal of them and I'm not sure of the benefits of sticking him in there.

Those American prisons certainly don't look a soft touch though; no wonder Abu Hamza fought tooth and, er, hook not to go there.

croyde

22,898 posts

230 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Recorded this last night so I haven't seen it yet but anything I have seen about the US prison system makes me wonder how come there is any crime there at all. All looks fekin' grim compared to the UK system.

Seems to me that prisons don't appear to worry people with a criminal mindset yet scare the crap out of innocents like me frown

LordHaveMurci

12,043 posts

169 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Locked up for 23hrs a day then allowed 1hr of exercise in a small cage, what the hell can possibly go wrong?

Not humane, not effective & yet due to the 'let them rot in hell' brigade, tolerated.

5potTurbo

12,532 posts

168 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Watching this from the Continent, and it being a "school night" last night, I usually would record post 10:00p.m and watch it another day, but my wife & I sat and watched, genuinely intrigued. The statistics on U.S prison populations and the number in solitary are, frankly, astonishing.

If I were in that situation, and I sincerely hope I would never be, I'd knuckle down and do some studying. This lot, however, struggled to put a sentence together, so they had nothing else to do.

The "fishing" trick was very clever though.