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The Prisons Containing the Poor

There are a lot of mentall ill people in prison who ought to be in mental hospitals, and would be if we still had the mental hospitals that be not powel stupidly closed up. If you visit a prison, which i suppect you have done, probably the most tragic part of the prison is the bit where the mentally ill people are. It's totally the wrong place for them, but in the end, the state has nowhere else to put them because it's dismantled the other profession it ought to have. That is true, a deprivation takes more than one form. But that isn't necessari bau of material polity. Look at this country during the twenties and th

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