[lbo-talk] :Re: Lenin would support Pussy Riot

[// ravi]

On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:21 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> But when someone is sent to prison on a disorderly conduct
>> charge someone is damn scared.
> 
> Can't speak for anywhere else, but the maximum sentence for disorderly conduct in New York is 15 days and almost no one ever actually goes to jail for it.
> 

At the same time, wasn’t there a case recently of an activist who was raped while in a holding cell? The US system is just a lot more "sophisticated”.

	—ravi