should there be a law that whenever somebody is wrongfully incarcerated

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Perhaps.  The important lesson here is to make prison a more pleasant place - provide excellent living and learning facilities, and extremely high levels of security to make sure the violence and rape that is a normal part of prison life doesn't happen.  In other words spend many times the current budget, while at the same time greatly reducing the prison population by legalizing drugs, prostitution, etc.

If we spent a LOT more on prisons, and had a prison population about 1/3 what it is now, I think we could create salubrious, livable conditions which would make mistaken conviction less of an injustice than it is now.   The main reason unjust convictions are so horrible is they often lead to the death of the victim, through prison-murder, hiv infection from rape, etc.

this plus the NLRA should be expanded to include prisoners under its jurisdiction. 

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What is worse in this thread: the ridiculous op or the criminal coddlers? I sincerely hope that my cousin's murderer is not enjoying himself or freaking collective bargained.

maybe he's a shop steward.  more seriously : when we are impacted personally our desire for vengeance goes way up, naturally.  is not the point of a liberal state to remove this id-force and create a neutral arbiter to deal with, among other things, unfortunate situations such as murder?  your cousin will never live again, regardless of whether or not his killer is currently watching television in air conditioning or toiling 70 hour weeks in some forced sweatshop, nor is it likely that such a juxtaposition entered his mind before he decided to settle whatever score he settled.