Yeah, this article in particular is not really the one I'd pick if I wanted to highlight the problems with American prisons. It's anecdotal anyways. Even the be

Yeah, this article in particular is not really the one I'd pick if I wanted to highlight the problems with American prisons. It's anecdotal anyways. Even the best, most compassionate prisons in the world probably have lots of quite negative anecdotes. However, the horrors of the American prison system are pretty well documented, and I'm not sure it's really controversial to say that these are very bad places to find oneself, significantly worse than the prisons of many other western developed nations, and a much larger percentage of America's population is in prison than any other democratic nation.