We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.

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1st October 2011

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42, female, single, college degree, paid back my loans, worked a bunch of jobs.  Two years in a maximum security prison.  Where, by the way, there is no cable, no internet, no health care, no three square meals, no free ride, no education.  There is hunger, disease, contagious pests, heat stroke, drug addiction, and daily sexual assault by guards in the name of “security”, though.  Oh, and violence and overcrowding, and discrimination if you don’t bow down to religious beliefs you don’t believe in. The best people in prison are other prisoners.  And guess what?  No one in prison claims they are innocent.  Not even innocent people.  It’s a moot point.  You’re there, and you already know, no one believes you or cares, so why rehash it? Your family will probably abandon you, though I was lucky and my parents never did (everyone else?  Oh yes).  If there is no one on the outside for you, you have NOTHING.  If a culture can be judged by how it treats its sick, its poor, and its prisoners, America wouldn’t even rate a failing grade.  And I wish it was just the 1% at fault for this, but alas, it is not. Hate to break it to ya, but I’m still the 99%, and there are millions like me.  Sooner or later you will all be one of us, or know one of us, or love one of us.  I didn’t choose the situation.  I can only choose how I deal with it.

42, female, single, college degree, paid back my loans, worked a bunch of jobs.  Two years in a maximum security prison.  Where, by the way, there is no cable, no internet, no health care, no three square meals, no free ride, no education.  There is hunger, disease, contagious pests, heat stroke, drug addiction, and daily sexual assault by guards in the name of “security”, though.  Oh, and violence and overcrowding, and discrimination if you don’t bow down to religious beliefs you don’t believe in.

The best people in prison are other prisoners.  And guess what?  No one in prison claims they are innocent.  Not even innocent people.  It’s a moot point.  You’re there, and you already know, no one believes you or cares, so why rehash it?

Your family will probably abandon you, though I was lucky and my parents never did (everyone else?  Oh yes).  If there is no one on the outside for you, you have NOTHING.  If a culture can be judged by how it treats its sick, its poor, and its prisoners, America wouldn’t even rate a failing grade.  And I wish it was just the 1% at fault for this, but alas, it is not.

Hate to break it to ya, but I’m still the 99%, and there are millions like me.  Sooner or later you will all be one of us, or know one of us, or love one of us.  I didn’t choose the situation.  I can only choose how I deal with it.

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    is there even a single thing here telling us why she was in maximum security prison for two years
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