This is the USA. Does the government care about the people? From incarceration to a heating planet, do Americans matter?

Americans are not human beings to their government. They are objects of incarceration, victims of violence, those stranded in 'nowhere' because of severe weather and in need of services such as education. But, even when in need of services such as education, the government rather give the money to private industry than actual improvement of lives of Americans.

We are objects and classified for the purpose of expediency.

February 16, 2016

Six weeks after her arrival at Rikers Island, (click there) an argument over who should clean a jailhouse shower sent Candie Hailey to solitary confinement - known as "the bing."

It was the first time, but it would not be the last.

A month later, records show, she cursed and spit at a guard and resisted when she was put in a hold. Ninety-five days in the bing. She later got 70 days for cursing at an officer, splashing the guard with toilet water and refusing to stop. Among other infractions: fighting (40 days), disrespect of staff (30 days) and blocking her cell window (15 days).

Of her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 alone in a 6-by-10-foot cell, with a bed, a toilet and a few books to pass the time. When she did go outside, it was just for one hour in 24. And she had yet to be tried for any crime, let alone convicted.

At least eight times in the course of her more than three-year incarceration, she would be taken to the hospital after suicide attempts in solitary that included trying to swallow hair remover product, pills and the chemicals inside an instant ice pack, banging her head on a wall and trying to electrocute herself by putting a phone cord in her cell's toilet....

...Hailey's month-long trial last May ended with a verdict of not guilty. Hailey was free to return to the Bronx....

..."I would say I've been through hell and back," she said. "My soul died but my body is alive."...