Thank you for providing the name for that concept ('Third Place'). It's been on my mind that these are becoming particularly important for people who work remotely and therefore don't even have a 'Second Place'.
It seems to me fairly self-evident that actions which chill debate or discussion limit political expression and an informed electorate, thereby fundamentally impinging on democracy. Why then distinguish between 'chilling effects' and an attack on democracy?
Money quote: "Oddo also said that workers were provided enough water, but the prisoners didn't sip it slowly enough."
Also for a sense of scope http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoner... including this irrelevant but salacious detail: 'In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace "Made in Honduras" labels on garments with "Made in the USA."'
It seems to me that the difference is not so much 'where those people are put' but rather that there are support mechanisms that help the majority of at-risk people before they deteriorate to the level of homelessness or mental disability that you commonly see in US city streets.
EDIT: While there are obviously outlier cases where treatment is difficult, the majority of mental illness and homelessness is circumstantial and preventable.
I use a keyboard that has a similar layout to that in the images above (ctrl to left of A, tilde on home key at top right etc). It's called the Happy Hacking Keyboard and is made in Japan by a Fujitsu subsidiary: see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard. It's extremely expensive (~$300 or so) but has amazing key action and having gotten used to it I would never want to use anything else
TLDR: Health benefits of cycling are believed to significantly outweigh health risks on average.