Rikers Inmates Are Routinely Denied Medical Care, Court Filing Says

Lexam , 37 minutes ago

If these people wanted medical care then they should have thought about their life choices. Like being born in America.

432 , 4 hours ago

Let’s not make this another liberal echo chamber.

FlyingSquid , 2 hours ago

Or let’s give a shit about giving human beings who need medical care the care they need so they don’t die.

andrewth09 , 11 minutes ago

(1) Welcome to Lemmy

(2) How is checks notes healthcare for inmates something we have to debate about? If you are incarcerated your well-being is the responsibility of the state. The government has to take care of you because you don’t get a choice in being there.

FlyingSquid , 5 hours ago

The justice system seems to have forgotten we have an eighth amendment. So maybe we should just dump it, like the first half of the second.

todd_bonzalez , 3 hours ago

My favorite thing is to ask a gun nut to recite the 2nd Amendment. It’s one sentence:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

They never know it. They usually kinda know it, but they never actually know how it’s written.

So I tell them that it’s this Marx quote:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered, any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary.

And they believe me.

FlyingSquid , 3 hours ago

That’s awesome. I am jealous you came up with something so brilliant.

FundMECFSResearch , 3 hours ago

Congrats on being my first saved comment

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