The case for getting rid of America's corrupt, expensive, barbaric prisons

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They were supposed to be penitentiaries, not prisons.

David Rothman’s Discovery of the Asylum is a nice read on the subject.

I think the title just made the case, or are corrupt, expensive, and barbaric prisons not enough?

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all prisons are barbaric

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