Is there a world a difference?
Compare Stalin's prison-system to the US system of care:
"During their non-working hours, prisoners typically lived in a camp zone surrounded by a fence or barbed wire, overlooked by armed guards in watch towers. The zone contained a number of overcrowded, stinking, poorly-heated barracks. Life in a camp zone was brutal and violent. Prisoners competed for access to all of life’s necessities, and violence among the prisoners was commonplace. If they survived hunger, disease, the harsh elements, heavy labor, and their fellow prisoners, they might succumb to arbitrary violence at the hands of camp guards. All the while, prisoners were watched by informers—fellow prisoners always looking for some misstep to report to Gulag authorities." http://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/living.php
How much better is the American inmate, seeking freedom?
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Supermax
As a comment to this post I added an article about Supermax facilities which can be found here.
Punishment gone psychotic
I wonder, just how far "punishment" needs to go?
What's an expected outcome with these prison-systems?
Do prisons teach inmates how to take better care of themselves and their families, so they don't return to a life of crime - or do prisons treat inmates like animals because that's how they see criminals, as a whole?
Herbiculture
A prison system that locks up people in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, deliberately tries to cause brain damage to the inmate, making sure not a person, but a plant returns to society.
book-em
but mandatory sentencing is taking place because kids and adults will use herbs as a substance OUTSIDE prison gates.
what the hell sort of message is that?
it's a crazy mixed-up world in which we live, made by rulers who don't live in a world ruled by those living in it.