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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by eterm on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:13PM (#13286526)
Not just Turing, people still alive are still under great injustice, because it was only Turing who received a pardon. Pardons should have been provided to everyone convicted under those laws.
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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by DanBC on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:27PM (#13288411)
They are going to be pardoned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37711518

> Gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales are to receive posthumous pardons, the government has announced.

> Thousands of living men convicted over consensual same-sex relationships will also be eligible for the pardon.

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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by masklinn on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:15PM (#13286534)
Completely true.
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