I suspect that it is the standard treatment, and that (from our no doubt liberal and cosseted British world view) denial of individual rights and comforts is routine in the New York system. It reminds me very much of what was caricatured in the musical Annie.
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Date: 2008-01-24 07:33 pm (UTC)