• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The nonviolent kind. People who made dumb mistakes breaking bullshit laws. It’s not something I pay much attention to so I don’t have a list to rattle off, but they certainly exist.

    Part of the problem with this stance is that the US has a knack for also locking up innocent people.

    Take this, for instance, where they coerced a confession, locked up a Dad for 8 months, and the actual perp left a pair of shoes with his name written in them at the fucking scene:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Riley_Fox

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      6 months ago

      That’s a valid point. I don’t take anything the police or courts say at face value, but does anyone dispute that Xandan is in prison for being a violent piece of shit?