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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by Aeronwen on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:50PM (#24991838)
You can't really make a case for unusual, given the state of the US prison system.
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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by ehsankia on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:30PM (#24992765)
Over-imprisonment isn't the reason, fear of death is. The fact that the US prison system is rampant doesn't really make the living condition of one given inmate unusually cruel. The high risk of them catching a deadly disease does.
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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by ashtonkem on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:12PM (#24995332)
I think what GP is saying is that Kim’s probable treatment in the US criminal justice system would not be unusual, it would in fact be the usual treatment for US inmates. Inmates in the US regularly fear for and lose their lives, pandemic or no pandemic.

The cruelty point stands though.

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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by berti on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @02:11PM (#24992023)
The extradition case is made in the context of New Zealand though.
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