The American Prison system has gone off the rails.
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It was not until Reconstruction when the stark realities of American prisons were viewed by highly educated overseers as shameful and repugnant.
The first post-Revolutionary prisons were not much better; in fact, the Civil War prisons rivaled the inhumanity of pre-Revolutionary ones.
Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons were inhuman and savage petri houses of filth and diseases.
The American Prison system has gone off the rails