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since 1989, over 200 exonerated prisoners have walked because of DNA evidence revealing their lack of guilt & 10 or so “successful” executions have been performed, ending the lives of individuals whose guilt was found to be of great suspect, post-mortem--- as the 2.3 million or so (highest per capita rate of prisoners in the world), piled & stuffed into incarceration all over the empire continues to grow, there are said to be anywhere between 44,000 & 80,000 of these individuals, locked away in solitary confinement. maximum security prisons weren’t enough apparently & so the construction of the “supermax” has brought a new spin to the tossing of citizens into garbage cans, where in an act of complete lack of responsibility & ignorance, a smaller garbage can inside the larger, has become the norm & not the exception for those individuals within the prison system. Anthony Graves’ own testimony at the first US Senate hearing of its kind addressing the psychological torture & human rights abuses occurring in supermax isolation, detailed the utterly horrible & desperate conditions of his own unlawful incarceration which stole 18 YEARS of own his life--- 10 of them which he spent in solitary. the fact that this hearing took place is a step in the right direction, for the abuse of the abuser (if in fact said individual is even guilty) does nothing but perpetuate the violence wielded on society, by society & none of us are innocent in this, but the questions concerning what goes on in prisons should not end here, it should BEGIN & though people like Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois seem to have their heart in the right place, he is just one man & a politician at that (with hands bound to do the bidding of those that fund his election)--- it is WE, the public on the outside, the family & the friends, the concerned & the outraged, who need to step forward & speak out against the powers that be, so that those on the inside might gain education, become rehabilitated & have a REAL chance in the world that spit them out the first time around. without this kind of compassion & defense of ALL our rights, the violence will only increase.
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