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Permalink Reply by Nikki on August 1, 2011 at 10:09pm

Here's the full-length YouTube video. 

What's more disturbing than this video is the attitude of the American people.  They fully support the prison system.  It was evident in this video from the radio call-ins and the juries who acquitted the prison guards who murdered inmates.  Just ask anybody and they will give you the same knee-jerk answer that prisons aren't there to coddle inmates.  If you told them about the torture and abuse they would simply shrug their shoulders and say it must be just an isolated event.  Many think that Sheriff Arpaio is doing a great job.  What can you say about a country that supports war, torture, the police state, and this type of prison system?  This lack of respect for human rights and dignity and even life itself goes to the heart and soul of America.

 

I wrote a paper about prison abuse in college.  It was bad then and has only become worse.  Americans were not interested in prison reform years ago and they still aren't today. 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Tara on August 2, 2011 at 2:01am

Just from what I've viewed so far, it's utterly disturbing. Animals get better treatment than many of these prisoners.

 

Not that I condone torture, but wouldn't it be nice to see those that impose or inflict torture on another human being get the same treatment back upon them? Many politicians come to mind right now actually. Of course I don't really want to see them tortured, but sometimes the Old Testament sentiments, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" definetely comes to mind.

 

It's just like the bully in school that picks on and beats up all the smaller, weaker and younger kids. These pricks get off on brutalizing the lesser. What's nice to see is the bully get a dose of his own medicine when one kid says enough is enough and kicks the living crap out of the bully. The torture finally ends, for the moment at least.

 

I believe that rapists, murderers, child predators and lifetime thief's need to be in prison but also there needs to be safeguards up so no abuse and torture happens. Prisons are suppose to be for reform and not abuse and torture. And then you add in the element of drug users, abusers and they're sellers filling up the prisons at an alarming rate, being put through the system of abuse in the prison system and we all wonder why prisoners come out of the system more hardened and usually more criminally minded. They're a product of their environment. Oh.... and using inmate as cheap labor too. Another issue in itself. It's a damn shame.

Permalink Reply by Anti Oligarch on August 2, 2011 at 4:54am

Amen Tara !!

 

There's so much evil all around, people even believe this is the normal way.

I'm trying to focus on the real criminals that create the law-grid (war in everything that moves or thinks) then charge "we the people" billions to build prisons everywhere (we have more prisoners than China) then contract them out to their private criminal friends who make prisoners work for 25 cents an hour, using the most disturbed the most deprived the most evil scumbags they can find to enforce total control through violence and humiliation.

Worst of all is this is spilling out to society thanks to mainstream media, ads now say things like "kill as many as you can" ...

 

God help us all