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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by jMyles on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:51AM (#34506220)
What a ridiculous presumption.

Is there anything resembling evidence that the current system of incarceration selects the "kinds of people" to whom you refer, rather than arbitrarily from the population, weighted by money and melanin?

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by warning26 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:54AM (#34506274)
Are you saying that no one in prison is there because they committed a crime? While I’d be certain that there are false positives, you seem to be asserting that the entire prison population is composed of false positives.
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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by HideousKojima on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:53PM (#34507257)
>Is there anything resembling evidence that the current system of incarceration selects the "kinds of people" to whom you refer

The National Crime Victimization Survey?

I mean people always try and say that the FBI crime stats are wrong/falsified/whatever but I rarely if ever see any attempts to debunk the NCVS which corroborates the FBI crime numbers.

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