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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Prison SHOULD be about deprivation of liberty and social contact......it should be about reparation.....it should be strict enough to deter the wrong doer from offending ever again.
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Margaret, please read a bit more carefully - this sheriff does not run a
prison. He runs a jail, where most of the inmates have not yet been convicted of anything. Under our law, they are presumed innocent. They are either being held because there is a risk of flight from prosecution, or because they cannot afford the bail bond. His behavior would be shameful in a prison; it is clearly a moral and social injustice to treat folks who have not yet been found guilty in such a manner.