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		steveklabnik on Nov 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor ... It's a big topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement

Jtsummers on Nov 15, 2013 [–]

Thanks for the link. That's actually a pretty good enumeration of my issues with the current system in the US. I don't think I'd go so far as to say eliminate all prisons, the sorts of prisons we have today are not the sort that we should be using.

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