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@1:

You DO understand that being locked in a cell 24/7 generally means being locked in a cell 24/7 with ANOTHER PRISONER, or depending on how overcrowded the facility is, MORE THAN ONE OTHER PRISONER, right?

But regardless of the number of cell-mates, you're probably sweet and juicy, so no doubt you'd be somebody's punk right quick...

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@2, what is your understanding of the word solitary? Google it to gain some clarity.

6

"Thank you for your interest in SYCT. We have concluded this project in your community. Please contact your local health department for any remaining kits that may be available for pickup locally." Didn't this just go live like yesterday? What the hell?

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@7: No, and neither do you when you take a walk outside.

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@9
& Hope
they Learned
how to read, eh?

oh & that they can
fucking See to read

so many little things
most just take for Granted

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@9: It is possible, if not admirable, to have strong law and order political dispositions without being punitive or cruel.

12

my Hero Chris Hedges
teaches Civics to Prisoners:
Zinn's 'a People's History of the
USOFA' and they're like, "We've been Lied to."

a wee blurb from Town Hall Seattle:
'As the nation’s poorest city per capita, Camden, N.J., is a poster child of postindustrial decay—and a warning to us all, says Chris Hedges. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, co-author of the graphic nonfiction book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, traveled to the most depressed areas of the United States to show what happens when a society loses a sense of the sacred and nothing has an intrinsic value beyond monetary values.

Amid sky-high unemployment and threatened social services, Hedges warns of a bleak near-future where cities such as Camden—and even states—fall into bankruptcy, neofeudalism reigns, and the nation’s working and middle classes are decimated."

Homelessness ain't
The Problem

it's a
Symptom.

13

@9 But not probable.

14

There can be no happiness in a world where the undesirables are thrown away.

17

@15. How about electing them to Congress and the highest offices in the land?

18

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/22/donald-trump-legal-perils

"It's all right, 'cause it's all white [collar]."

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in other news
the passage of
a (Fashion) Giant:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/22/opinion/sunday/andre-leon-talley-dead.html

'member when it wasn't ok to be gay?
and look how far we've come since
we've ditched fossillized notions
before. we need to do it Again

just say No to
the reich wing
& their collab-
orators.

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"My name is Jojo Ivan" in support of this Dr Balbosa fellow is some fun-ass spell-caster spam copy. Think if the comment was posted under the same user name, I may have even thrown caution to the wind and reached out to see what they had to offer. Bummer.

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Whoops, pressed the wrong button! I work in Jail Health Services and can confirm that it is an absolute nightmare in there with some inmates not getting out of their cells for DAYS. I see above that people think this is preferable to being with others but it is very isolating and detrimental to most inmate’s mental health, and it also means they don’t get showers or phone calls. The jail was dirty before but now, without trustees (inmate workers) to clean, things are even grosser. Many officers and staff members are out due to COVID. Many staff do not mask regularly and inmates do not mask consistently (it would be hard to mask 24/7 in a group tank). We have no regular testing of staff. I don’t know how it’s ever going to end in there. I hope the courts can get things moving.

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"The thing about
mental health issues is
that they are just that,
mental, all in
the head."

aha!
YOUR brain's
Ok so everyone
else's 'problems'
are . . . Imaginary.

Close the loony bins!
FIRE all the pshchologists!

st2's gonna Save us
some Big fucking money:

if your brain's not leaking
from your skull, well then you're

just

fine.

whoa

27

oh so you
Were dropped
on your wee baby
head. that explains

Everything.

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@25: From schizophrenia, to bi-polar disorder, to depression - mental health diseases are indeed physical brain and body pathologies.

@28: Such generalizations are so blatantly disingenuous, it can't be sincere. You must be coming down from watching dungeon S&M porn.

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You can't treat mental illness by castigating the mentally ill, no more than you can heal one's broken arm by breaking their finger. Mental health can and will improve over time with love and the right treatment, and those deemed useless at their life's nadir can thrive and produce beyond measure when they find their way. Those who would perpetuate a vicious cycle of stunted growth and expect miraculous change from brute force are savage cannibals with broken minds.

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@36. It is good you do not oversee any public health policy with your myopic perspective. When you are mentally ill, your decision making is compromised. Choices that are objectively irrational to the neurotyoical become subjectively rational decisions to the mentally unwell. It is not a matter of discipline or wisdom, but wellness.


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