The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he’s in isn’t accommodating his vegan diet.

  • Nepenthe
    31•1 year ago

    Even if they weren’t wrongly convicted. Murderer happens to follow any one of the religions that forbid pork? What’s feeding them bacon going to accomplish, exactly? It’s purely out of spite when the object is supposed to be to discourage reoffending. Treating people humanely makes them act human. Call them a dog and they’ll act like a dog.

    Even the more progressive can be like this. People have weird ideas about human worth being something measurable and thus rescindable.

      • Franzia
        2•1 year ago

        I think the statistics show our non-rehab priaon system only hardens the will of criminals, and if we want to break their will to do crime we will actually have to show them compassion, as dozens of other countries are successfully doing.

        • Draconic NEO
          3•1 year ago

          Absolutely, there needs to be an effort to help people become better citizens, and not just beating them down. People who you beat down fight back to protect themselves, which is literally the opposite of what you want here (unless the goal is to have more people rescinding).

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Ummm… you think an eye for an eye is effective? You realize the saying is “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”, right?