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GoonSquad
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06 Dec 2013, 12:16 am

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^ America's war on drugs sure has led to lots of prisoners of war. :scratch:


Gotta get that unemployment rate down somehow.

Here's a really informative documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/house-i-live-in/

You can see the whole thing on Netflix, last I checked.


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06 Dec 2013, 1:14 am

The 6th amendment is in tatters. The Supreme Court wrecked it in the late '70s in a clear case where a prosecutor arranged successfully to give someone life without possibilty of parole over an extremely minor offence to punish him for refusing to plead guilty.

It's Bordenkircher v. Hayes.