Judge Joe Brown and HIV in the penal system.

[lowprone]

The government can't run a whorehouse and make money, just think about that !

[shadowspirit]

One state ran an ad campaign basically boasting that being incarcerated in one of their facilities would likely get the convicted person raped.

Maybe to scare people. Tyranny.

[Averageman]

Well, if you had the political connections, it would seem to be the perfect way to take a rival out of the picture.

If you're someone's political enemy, don't be, they'll get you and it will be 100% legal.

[Diamondback]

Well, if you had the political connections, it would seem to be the perfect way to take a rival out of the picture.

If you're someone's political enemy, don't be, they'll get you and it will be 100% legal.

Yup, and don't think even the most True Believer of Dems are safe - remember, Heinrich Himmler used the Gestapo against his own personal enemies within NSDAP right along with the external Enemies of the Party.

[jsbhike]

Well, if you had the political connections, it would seem to be the perfect way to take a rival out of the picture.

If you're someone's political enemy, don't be, they'll get you and it will be 100% legal.

That gets mentioned by Horace Kephart concerning Appalachian feuds.

https://www.loc.gov/item/22021761/

It's iffy whether the feuds started over a slight against family or were purely political from the start, but a common theme was for those in the feud to gain political office to better attack their opponents.

The 1922 update linked above also has interesting occurrences from the war on drugs(alcohol edition) not included in the 1913 original.