Moderators: Balam-Acab, Hulluttelu Kuutio, P O L L Y
GQ wrote:Buried Alive: Stories From Inside Solitary Confinement
It is brutal. It is torture by definition. It destroys the mind, body, and soul, making rehabilitation next to impossible. It is also outrageously expensive, and it doesn't work. Yet at the end of the Obama era, and the dawn of Trump's, isolation is as widely used as ever in the American penal system. And this is what it feels like.
BY NATHANIEL PENN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAN WINTERS
Land of the free.
Ainakin nuorisorikollisuudesta on uutisoitu semmoista. Aika vitun sairasta ja osoittaa taas, miten tuossa maassa asiat menee pieleen kun ihan kaikesta tehdään liiketoimintaa.
Tosiaan mikä vois mennä vikaan kun yksityistetään tämmöset hommat?NYROK TAIMS wrote:Security staff at East Mississippi earn even less than the $12-an-hour starting wage made by their public service counterparts, and private prison guards receive only three weeks of training — less than half the training time required of state prison guards.
The state’s contract with Management & Training Corporation is particularly economical. Mississippi pays the company just $26 a day — or about $9,500 a year — for each minimum-security inmate. That is far less than the $15,000 a year neighboring Alabama spends per inmate, and only 13 percent of what New York, which spends more than any other state, pays per inmate.
Called as an expert witness for the Mississippi inmates, Eldon Vail, the former state prisons chief in Washington State, told the court that the focus on cutting costs had sent East Mississippi into a downward spiral.
“There are not a sufficient number of correctional officers, and most of their problems stem from that issue,” he said.
Cat inside
: Odotin kuvia joiden kanssa olis ollut kivempi mennä nukkumaan
