Mary Gay Scanlon: “It is September. It is Recovery Month. I have a son who is more than 11 years in recovery, and yet, I have friends who…”

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.

Permanent daylight savings time was repealed within a year because it didn't work.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.