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In an interview published Friday by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), US navy veteran Jason Riddle said: “It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable.
“I don’t want the pardon. And I … reject the pardon.”
Riddle entered the US Senate parliamentarian’s office, drank a bottle of wine, stole a book and inflicted damage at the Capitol when Trump supporters attacked the building on 6 January 2021 in a desperate attempt to the then president in office after he lost the presidency to Joe Biden weeks earlier, according to court documents. He received a 90-day prison sentence and was fined $750 in April 2022 for pleading guilty to committing misdemeanors in an attack that was linked to several deaths, including officer suicides.
Maybe the answer isnt that the prison conditions should be worse, but that law abiding citizens shouldn’t have to scrape and struggle to barely get by.
All of this.
America’s warped view of what prison should be hasn’t changed from its British foundations, and they’re filled with mostly poor people who’re often used as chattle for corporations.
Thing is, on the outside they are probably also just poor people used as chattel for corporations.
Until we fix that, making prisons resorts will only lead to more people committing crimes in order to escape their “free” lives.