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  1. Francis William Bourdillon:

    Man only goeth a godless way In his dark and smoky babels, Or builds him prisons wherein to pray, And serves not God but tables.

  2. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi:

    The high majority of municipal jails and prisons in this country make invisible, suppress or isolate inmates who are transgender, since the transgender population is marginalized on the streets of America, consider how that marginalization is magnified inside prisons and jails.

  3. Gerges Scott:

    Private prisons have the same standards and guidelines as federal prisons, there is a lot more accountability for private prisons. Union workers in public prisons provide a lot of leniency for their employees. In a private prison, a majority are not unionized, so the oversight is very rigid.

  4. Callum Gale:

    People use all sorts of different methods to smuggle prohibited items into prisons, i've heard of drones being used before, but not a lot. To be honest the most common method I've heard of smuggling drugs into prisons is by stuffing them into tennis balls and hitting them over.

  5. Ali Noorani:

    Our federal prisons are set up to detain the worst of the worst. They should not be used for immigration purposes, federal prisons are for hardened criminals. They are not physically set up for immigrant landscapers looking for a job or fleeing violence.

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