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A comment on Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner music purchases. Parent comment

Re:Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner m... by icebraining on Sunday March 03, 2019 @03:23PM (#19296601)
> it doesn't mean we don't have to be hard on "not elite" criminals.

Does being hard mean scamming them? Because that's what we're talking about here, not about applying longer sentences or other harsh punishments.

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Re:Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner m... by alasdair_ on Sunday March 03, 2019 @04:08PM (#19296883)
It’s often not even the prisoners who are scammed - the people paying for these things are disproportionately the wives, girlfriends and children left behind.
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