Are you seriously confused about what they meant by "worst in the West"? What do you expect, a pat on the back for not being as bad as those? Prisons are mean

Are you seriously confused about what they meant by "worst in the West"? What do you expect, a pat on the back for not being as bad as those? Prisons are meant as a way to take people's freedom away for some amount of time, not to sneak in extra corporeal punishment by making them as shitty as possible. What is happening in the US is definitely the latter, and what's worse, many people seem to cheer for it.