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by bobo123 3828 days ago
I think this is really great. How often do we as a society take the voices of prisoners seriously? It's kind of interesting to see a "view from below." Very cool work.
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Do you expect people should like prison? Prison would not be much of a deterrent if it didn't get 1 star from just about everyone in terms of the experience. In terms of dealing with actual abuse of prisoners, the courts are a far more robust system for dealing with complaints.
The US has a brutal prison system where prison rape and sexual assault is routine.

The US also has a huge prison population and recidivism is high, so the brutality of the system doesn't seem to work much as a deterrent.

How do yelp reviews address this problem?