<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Courtesy of the <i>New Yorker.</i><div><br></div><div>———————————————-</div><div><div><h1 class="ArticleHeader__hed___GPB7e" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 44px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricPrecision; font-family: "Irvin Heading", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.09; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative; flex: 0 0 83.33332824707031%; max-width: 83.33332824707031%; width: 853.328125px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Trump Suddenly Expresses Deep Concern About Conditions in Nation’s Prisons</h1></div><div><br></div><div>WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a sudden departure from his previous views on incarceration, Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he was “very, very concerned” about conditions in the nation’s prisons.</div><div><br></div><div>“These are very, very bad places,” Trump told reporters. “These are not places you would want to be.”</div><div><br></div><div>Trump criticized the “total lack of amenities” in the country’s federal penitentiaries, calling those prisons “a disgrace.”</div><div><br></div><div>“If you are locked up in one of those places, there is no TV in your cell,” he said. “And good luck getting a Diet Coke. You can yell and yell and no one will go get you one. It’s a very sad, very sick situation.”</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to blasting the conditions inside the nation’s prisons, Trump also questioned whether “putting someone in jail for one or two felonies serves any purpose.”</div><div><br></div><div>“I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately,” he said. “Prison solves nothing.”</div></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>