I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about … - Cecily McMillan

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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Cecily McMillan

I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

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Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

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You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.

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I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

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I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

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