Judge Joe Brown and HIV in the penal system.

[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.

[1168]

Yeah, the penal system is in desperate need of reform, in my eyes. I find this appalling and in extreme violation of “cruel and unusual”.

[joedirt199]

You guys do know they give each other tattoos in jail with a staple stuck in a jail pen. They burn book paper to make smoke and mix the suet with vasoline or lotion to make ink. No doubt they are not sanitizing the staple before each use.

[1168]

You guys do know they give each other tattoos in jail with a staple stuck in a jail pen. They burn book paper to make smoke and mix the suet with vasoline or lotion to make ink. No doubt they are not sanitizing the staple before each use.

Yeah. And rape is common, too. While “supervised”.

Don’t get me started on the cesspool of other infectious diseases and parasites that prisons sometimes exceed nursing homes in. But that is to be expected in densely populated confines filled as full as possible with discarded humans.