The Importance Of Loopholes In Prisons

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Even though we are able to say whatever we want to it doesn’t mean we should do it. Some things we say could have a large impact on our life or someone elses life and it might not be for the better. An example is that if you make a threat such as you are going to beat someone nearly to death you could be sent to jail or be warned. And it is true some people have been sent to jail for making threats and they some of them were not even that bad.

Also the government has found some loopholesin the first amendment. In prisons and jails the supreme court has given the wardens the power to control who gets to listen to the inmates and who doesn’t. Freedom of speech is over looked in courts as well, the judge gets to choose what is allowed to say

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