Once a court decides that you’re not guilty, the answer should be “you’re free to go” and for those who have been incarcerated for a significant amount of time, “here’s how we’re going to support your re-entry into society.” Keeping the imprisoned is completely antithetical to any reasonable sense of justice.

  • Optional
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    603 months ago

    The cruelty is the point

  • @hperrin
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    313 months ago

    So republicans want innocent people locked up and guilty people in the White House. How is this a serious political party?

    • @Archer
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      73 months ago

      Honestly surprised Mississippi didn’t swoop in with a plan to start The Purge

    • Matt
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      73 months ago

      I was going to guess Louisiana.

    • @RizzRustbolt
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      13 months ago

      I’d take offense at that, but I’ve seen our candidates for Governor.

  • worldwidewave
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    263 months ago

    It was not the first time that Mr. Bailey had sought to upend an exoneration, and his intervention in the Dunn case came at a critical point in his tenure, with the Missouri primary election scheduled for Tuesday. Mr. Bailey, who took office 17 months ago to fill out his predecessor’s term, is trying to fend off a formidable challenger as he seeks a full four-year term as the state’s top law enforcement officer.

    Weeks before trying to block Mr. Dunn’s release, Mr. Bailey moved to keep Sandra Hemme locked up after a judge ruled that she was innocent. Ms. Hemme, who had been in prison for 43 years, spent another month behind bars before the state’s highest court stepped in and ordered her release.

    And in June, Mr. Bailey tried unsuccessfully to quash a motion by the St. Louis County prosecutor to exonerate Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of the 1998 murder of a local journalist and faces execution in September.

    It’s political imprisonment, and it’s fucking disgusting.

    • @APassenger
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      He needs to be imprisoned. Seems fair enough.

    • @linearchaos
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      Disbarred, dismembered, any of the disses are probably being just fine

      • @lemmyseikai
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        33 months ago

        Eh, he’s already disimpassioned. We need to pick more radical disses.

    • @RizzRustbolt
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      23 months ago

      He’ll most likely lose his job tomorrow.

  • @cabron_offsets
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    133 months ago

    Republicans, ladies and gentlemen. Unencumbered by morals, empathy, or virtues of any sort.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    This guy should be thrown in jail for one (1) year for every one (1) hour these innocent people are held.

  • @TrickDacy
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    13 months ago

    BoTh SiDeS tHo!! UnIpArTY ANd StUfF