Held for 16 days in a “dry cell”—a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet—Adams was kept under lighted observation by sight and security camera, with no privacy whatsoever for the entire duration. She had been segregated on suspicion of hiding drugs in her vagina at the Nova Institution for Women in Truro, Nova Scotia.

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    The whole thing of treating people who are victims of drug addictions within the same system that’s designed for people who are robbing houses or whatever, is fucked.

    Of course, the ability to criminalize random people especially if they are members of the underclass is a feature, not a bug.