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The United States doesn’t care for its own people, but wants to import more and more immigrants. If the United States cared about its own people, there wouldn’t be so many in prison and the conditions wouldn’t be unfit for animals.
From ProPublica:
“LOCKED DOWN
Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than Guards At South Mississippi Correctional Institution, inmates have been on perpetual lockdown for seven months and gangs enforce rules. With frequent beatings, burnings and escapes, the prison has become a violent tinderbox. by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Aug. 19, 1 p.m. EDT
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LEAKESVILLE, Miss. — Jeffery Wilemon clutched his gut, throbbing in pain as he lay on his bed inside the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in April. But there was no way for him to cry out — not unless he wanted another beating.
Hours earlier, inmates had slugged the 54-year-old and declared that he needed to “follow the rules” their gang…
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