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We have prisons where people work producing military equipment, and how much one needs to go to prison? How much law lobbying is done by prison owners?
by LatvjuAvs 14y ago
We have prisons where people work producing military equipment, and how much one needs to go to prison?
How much law lobbying is done by prison owners?
- InclinedPlane 14y agoThis is simply not relevant and it reads a bit like a "tu quoque" argument from a North Korean apologist. It doesn't do them justice to call these "prison camps", they are gulags, they are concentration camps for political prisoners. Visiting them would be to revisit some of the worst horrors of the 20th century as seen in Nazi death camps or Stalinist gulags. The only reasons why these horrors haven't driven the west to action are that information about these camps are very difficult to get out and also there is very little we could do about the problem without causing millions of deaths (of South Koreans too) in the process.
- rrreese 14y agoI'm not familiar with American prison conditions but I suspect they aren't as bad as this: http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-north-korean-prison-camp-3549/ http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-nor...
- pygy_ 14y agoThey could hardly be worse. That doesn't make them good, though.
- mempko 14y agoCame here to say the same. USA has hundreds of thousands of prisoners toiling away in Georgia and other states. They are simply better fed slaves, but slaves the same. Probably makes it worse that they are mostly black.
- mempko 14y agoAlso, they have labor strikes, http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20101209231616269 http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20101209231616269
- Shivetya 14y agoAlso, they have cell phones. http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/local/growing-problem-cell-phones-georgia-prisons/nRDCK/ http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/local/growing-problem-cell...
- CrankyPants 14y agoAlso, they were convicted in trials, for violating laws that were written by an elected legislature, and signed into law by an elected president. They were also provided an attorney, and have an appeals process at their disposal. Seriously, yes, our prison system is really, really screwed up, but we got here largely out of public myopia and apathy, and to indicate we arrived at this place for reasons bearing any similarity to North Korea's is ignorant, at best.
- malandrew 14y agoActually, they probably weren't convicted in trials, especially if their crimes were federal. 90% of them are probably there due to taking a plea bargain. They may or may not be guilty, since plea bargaining makes a guilty plea with a lighter sentence more attractive than proving your own innocence in a way that guarantees financial ruin and risks an extremely harsh sentence.