On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:08:07 +1100
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote
>
> >>> My name is Nathan DeGrave, and as a non violent participant at the
> >>> Jan 6th rally, I've spent the last 9 months detained as a
> >>> political prisoner
> >>> in pod C2B at the DC DOC...otherwise known as DC's Gitmo.
> >
> > Actually, that's not really a location. He's in the DC Central
> > Detention Facility, probably awaiting a move to a federal facility.
> >
> > CDF is a pretty nasty place to be, in part due to a lot of prison
> > changes passed by Republicans in the eighties and nineties. As
> > Newt Gingrich says,
> > "prison isn't supposed to be fun." Even so, it's a pretty safe
> > place even if not a very comfortable one, especially when compared
> > with the old Lorton
> > Reformatory which used to be the main holding facility for DC.
> > Guys like Nathan would have been beat up and raped within minutes
> > of arrival at Lorton.
> > They'll probably make it through the CDF without any injuries,
> > which is a lot better than prisoners in a lot of other places can
> > say.
> >
> > They still have a chance to wind up at one of the privately-owned
> > facilities that provide contract prisons to the Federal government,
> > after their sentencing. If they think the CDF is bad, just wait.
>
> > Nobody wants to pay money to make prisons
> > into places that actually reform people,
>
> Because no matter how much you spend that doesn’t actually happen.
>
> Not even possible with kids jails essentially because
> only the worst of the kids end up in jail.
>
> > and so this is what we get. What they are seeing
> > right now is just the tip of the iceberg. Welcome
> > to consequences of the War on Drugs!
>
>

Nice to see arguments based on evidence. /s