"In The Belly Of The Beast" By Jack Abbott

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This is a prime example of unnecessary punishment and cruelty that engulfs our American penal systems. The goal of our penal systems is to not transform humans to animals, but to rehabilitate individuals that have committed crimes. There was another encounter in which he was subject to experimental psychological testing in which he was chained down naked and spread out on a table for days...
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During this time he was severely beaten and almost choked to death. Engaging in outrageous and dehumanizing events such as this one have no reasonable explanation and can be avoided by being less cruel and being more proactive in the rehabilitation process...
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