
E273 The Jim Halpert of Ghosts and the People Pleasing Outlaw
And That's Why We Drink
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How Much Did a Prison Cost?
In 19 63, in that year alone, there were 550 separate assaults and hundreds of stabbings. They had a cat of nine tails, leather straps with shards of metal and glass on the end to filay a man's flesh. The most lashings was 99 lashes at one time. And when missouri state prison had a death row, it was in a dungeon cell block called the hole. So if you had a mental illness, great, they would inject you with anti-psychotics and just bring you down there for years and years at a time. There were only one hour of exercise in a cage each day; people could only see 15 per cent of the light from their
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