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General => General Discussion for Everybody => Topic started by: Guts on January 17, 2016, 11:41:13 AM

Title: A Tale of Two Tyras
Post by: Guts on January 17, 2016, 11:41:13 AM

Another to Make a Murderer like story of a fucked up justice system...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/jan/14/the-injustice-system-us-prisons-tyra-patterson-michelle-lai-dayton-ohio-montgomery-county

Title: Re: A Tale of Two Tyras
Post by: Z on January 17, 2016, 12:41:53 PM

This is just insane: Today, the 7,787th day behind bars for Prisoner 037737, one out of every 110 adult Americans lives under the lock and key of the planet’s largest jailer: the United States of America. That represents almost one-quarter (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/30/does-the-united-states-really-have-five-percent-of-worlds-population-and-one-quarter-of-the-worlds-prisoners/&sa=D&ust=1452960529616000&usg=AFQjCNHGVMKLA19WRxKu_UKMH3dtA-Pgcw) of the world’s total prison population, and almost one-third (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women/&sa=D&ust=1452960529617000&usg=AFQjCNH0vCyv6Gs60LNSRfl3XPutrvavDA) of the world’s incarcerated female population.