#American Corrections System

[thenewdemocratus]

TSFF: Insight Prison Project

Prison education is essential if we want inmates to be able to be successful on the outside. And not commit any further crimes and not hurt any further any innocent people because now they know. There’s no successful future for them as criminals that they are hurting themselves and their families while in prison. As they and their families are much better off with them on the outside living…

[exilley]

Public education is not actually about academia, it's about industry. The purpose of american schools, from day one, was to integrate members of the general people into a society that is nigh dependant on submission to the status quo. If you ask any teacher, student, parent, counselor, or any other person who is invested in public schooling, what the purpose of going to school is, they will respond with some variation on how it's meant to prepare kids for their future careers. What's important is not that one is in touch with their history, or able to perform basic mathematics, or that one can engage with literature and art in a meaningful way. The important part is that schoolchildren have a dispassionately earnest work ethic, an unyieldingly flexible standard of punctuality, and an uncompromising set of inordinate values about properness drilled into them. I don't think it's funny or ironic that school settings are commonly compared to prisons, and I don't think education should have to exist to serve the purpose of monetary and political benefit to be considered worthy of investment. Until public education as an institution is no longer viewed as an extension of industry, intellectualism will never thrive and no number of foundational reworks of the system will be effective at remedying the underlying cause of dysfunction and corruption.

[kujakumai]

do you think bakura's dad knows his son's been stabbed at least twice?

I don't know enough about how hospitals in Japan work, I'm guessing that when a minor checks into a hospital for a stab wound on his upper shoulder then someone's going to be notified, especially since as far as Bakura and his friends know this was a crime. I'd say a stab wound serious enough to render one unconscious and hospitalized would be difficult enough for a teenager to hide that Bakura wouldn't bother trying and would just fess up. Sorry, pops, got stabbed on a pier and blacked out from blood loss. Not much else to say.

Also it's not clear how much/which parts of Battle City were filmed (the ones on the island clearly were, but the blimp seems more ambiguous as we're never shown cameras or footage) but it is distinctly possible that Bakura was like On National Television dueling Atem with a visible bleeding bandage so like. Yeah.

[lydslovr]

LIAM WAS ONLY A JUNIOR WHEN SCOTT AND THE OTHERS LEFT, MEANING HE STILL HAD 3 YEARS LEFT!

[cakemoney]

i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true

[cliveguy]

about to complain about stupid shit im seeing on twitter before realising this is my own fault for reading twitter

[sweetface-the-dollbaby]

oh btw I’m fairly sure I have a chance to retake my one test that I got a 5 out of 17 on and can you guess what I’m gonna do? CAN YOU GUESS WHAT I’M GONNA DO? CAN YOU GUESS WHAT I’M GONNA DO? CAN YOU GUESS WHAT I’M GONNA DO? CAN YOU FUCKING GUESS WHAT I’M GONNA DO?

[max-nolastname]

dick and bruce watched lilo and stitch (2002) together exactly one time, both privately thought it was the best disney movie to ever exist for reasons totally unrelated to their own personal circumstances, then never watched it again 

[whovianuncle]

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[falinscloaca]

rewatched paranoia agent by proxy (reaction youtube), feeling emotionally akin to warm yet raw eggs again. great.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Guards Thwart Escape Of Two at Graterford," Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1943. Page 1 & 12. ---- Two long-term convicts, taking advantage of fog and rain, broke from their cells at Graterford prison in the darkness early yesterday morning and came within a few feet of escape, while police of eight States continued an intensive manhunt for a convict who fled from Eastern Penitentiary Wednesday.

Only the alertness of two veteran guards, both off duty at the time, foiled the Graterford escape about 5.15 A. M. yesterday. DETECTED BY GUARDS The prisoners, Harry John Hovey, 27, and Michael Cipy, 36, were found cowering at the foot of a 30-foot moat surrounding the prison after Sergeant Clarence Wolf and Earl N. Moser had detected their shadows as the men passed a window of the prison kitchen.

Both Cipy, formerly an inmate of Fairview State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, and Hovey are serving terms for robbery.

According to Elmer Leitheiser, prison superintendent, they broke from their cells and tried unsuccessfully to scale the wall at the outer edge of the moat with the aid of 40 feet of sheeting, an iron hook, and two wooden poles about 20 feet long, taped together.

The men were confined in Cell Blocks A and B, in which the cells have partially barred windows. The lower section of each window is guarded only by a metal fly-screen.

Hovey and Cipy kicked these out, crawled through, and from the prison kitchen obtained long window cleaning poles and a heavy iron meat hook with which they attempted to pull themselves up over the wall of the moat.

The poles proved insufficient to hold their weight, and Hovey and Cipy were still at the bottom of the wall when Wolf and Moser gave the alarm and searchlights picked out the prisoners.

The fugitives will have hearings before a Norristown justice of the peace this morning on charges of attempted escape from prison.

HUNTED UPSTATE The third convict, 28-year-old Victor Andreoli, was believed heading for his old haunts upstate, in the deer hunting country.

Serving a life term for the murder of a State Motor Policeman six years ago. Andreoli disappeared from Cherry Hill on Wednesday, apparently in a truck which took a load of tent pegs, made by prisoners, from the institution next seen entered the shortly before noon. He was about 2 P. M., when he home of Anthony W. Cella at 5224 Arbor st., Olney.

After threatening Cella's wife, Lillian, and their six-year-old daughter, Angela, with a 12-inch knife, the fugitive forced Mrs. Cella to turn over to him an entire set of her husband's clothes, including shoes, then, waiting until the husband returned home from work, forced all three into the Cella family car and forced them to drive about the city while he ripped up and threw away his prison garb.

Ordering Cella to stop at Broad st. and Olney ave., the convict got out and walked away, telling the driver to warn police that "the first cop that lays a hand on me dies."

GUARD FORCE WEAKENED Following yesterday's frustrated escape attempt at Graterford, Warden Herbert Smith reiterated his recently voiced belief that the "maximum security" status of both Cherry Hill and Graterford had been weakened by the wartime depletion of their guard personnel.

The warden said further attempted prison breaks "may be anticipated" as a result of the loss of guards to the draft and higher paying war-industry jobs. Picture caption: THEY THWARTED CONVICTS' ATTEMPTED PRISON BREAK Earl Moser (left) and Sergeant Clarence R. Wolfe, two Graterford prison guards. holding the ropes and pole by which two convicts tried to escape yesterday. The guards detected their shadows as they passed a window of the prison kitchen and sounded the alarm. The men were captured at the foot of the prison moat.

[thenewdemocratus]

Slate Magazine: Helen Vera: Against Solitary Confinement: State are Finding it's Impractical as well as Immoral

Source:The New Democrat  The current use of the process of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons is deplorable.  There are no guidelines relating the length of confinement to severity of offense.  The process is used at the discretion of onsite officials.  This results in wide variations with some cruel and counterproductive results.  Indefinite solitary confinement is simply inhumane and can only…

[thrilling-oneway]

I really stop needing to go through the project sekai topic on twitter none of you know what words mean also why do you all hate the game and each other like holy shit

[mionghairearracht]

i don't know why but im particularly pissed about us centrism today.

i think i might actually need to figure out how to filter at least some posts related to us stuff because its legitimately upsetting seeing the amount of posts for us issue vs. canadian ones despite me following multiple canadian focussed blogs and bloggers.

it not even that i want there to be less us posts i just wish any non us issues got even a fraction of the attention.

[lunammoon]

i don’t know who need to hear this but “the American school system failed me“ isn’t a generic excuse you can whip out any time that you, a person from the US, is ignorant about another country.

The United States education system might be why it never occurred to you that the USSR had as big a part in WW2 as it did.

The United States education system might be why you’re unaware of some of the more unsavory things that the US did in other countries or if you’re aware of it, you only know a sanitized version that barely scratches the surface of the true events.

The depending on when and where you went to school, the US education system might be the reason why you believe something false about a country that you never bothered to research yourself outside of school because it never occurred to you that your textbook and teacher could be incorrect.

It might be the reason that you didn’t know that countries other than the US and Canada had States and Provinces (i distinctly remember asking my fourth grade teacher if they did, and being more or less told that thinking that other countries had states was a very America-centric way of thinking and I shouldn’t do that)

Yes, the US education system is severely lacking when it comes to countries outside of the US and like, 13-18th century western Europe and some schools still have very outdated textbooks that if they’re all you study from, can have you studying false information.

All that being said.

The US education system isn’t the reason you can’t point to Panama, Peru, Romania, Libya, or Ethiopia on a map. It’s not the reason that you “didn’t know Africa wasn’t a country :/“ Depending on how poorly funded your school is, it might be the reason you’re unaware of the existence of South Sudan, but even that’s a stretch.

[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!