It's time we act civilized and stop executing people

[exploited]

Why are you guys talking about pulling things out of your ass? I don't think this is the place for accusations of that nature.

exploited
PCF Ethics Committee

[Dylan]

[exploited]

[Aaron]

[exploited]

American prisons. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Most sexual relations in prison are consensual. Most prisons are not violent. American criminals are not some unique breed of badasses that are worse than Canadian criminals - in fact most of our gangs are subsidiaries or directly controlled by American gangs. The mafia crime bosses of Montreal are also the mafia crime bosses of New York.

I find it funny how Americans tend to think their circumstances are so special and unique. You see it brought up all the time and it is just totally inaccurate.

[Hyperion]

[Bauce]

[Bauce]

A little anecdote semi-related.

I knew a guy who prosecutors approached with a felony charge they were ready to drop on him (white collar shit) but were offering him immunity to testify on an associate of his. The problem was, some of the things they wanted him to say were things he had no knowledge of, and in fact, were things he had reason to believe were not accurate. Since he didn't give them everything they wanted, he got charged and then plead to a more minor offense in exchange for testifying to as much as he could without lying. Kind of f**k up that they charged him even though he was cooperating, just because he told them they were wrong about some of their suspicions, but more importantly, I'm fairly sure that many, many people, put in that situation, would just testify to whatever the prosecutors told them to say.

When people testify under these circumstances, their testimony is given under duress. I don't know how we tolerate it.

[Hyperion]

[The Dharma Bum]