On a spring day last year, the Alabama parole board split over the fate of Fredrick Bishop. But the board missed a key detail in the case: He was already dead.
Totally agree. All this mind-bogglingly malicious treatment of prisoners makes even the lightest sentence a possible death-sentence. Prisoners are human beings, and deserve to be treated as such.
I keep coming back to Dostoevsky’s line:
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Totally agree. All this mind-bogglingly malicious treatment of prisoners makes even the lightest sentence a possible death-sentence. Prisoners are human beings, and deserve to be treated as such.
I keep coming back to Dostoevsky’s line:
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead