On “This Week”
with George Stephanopoulos, he keeps saying 200,000 Political Prisoners in
Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea.
According to Black
Youth Project;
“Lets start with the
“prison camps”. According to Stephanopoulos Kim Jong Un has 200,000
people in prison camps. That’s nothing compared to the amount
of prisoners in the good ole USA. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics,
2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and
county jails at year-end 2010. 4,933,667 adults at year-end 2009 were on
probation or on parole. In total, 7,225,800 adults were under correctional
supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2009 –
about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population…”
Then there is Joseph Arpaio, the meanest Sheriff in the US.
He has created a prison camp in Arizona and he brags about it. This excerpt
from his web site says it all;
“With over five decades experience in law
enforcement, Arpaio knows what the public wants, “The public is my boss,” he
says, “so I serve the public.” He has served them well by establishing several
unique programs.
Arpaio has between
7500 - 10,000 inmates in his jail system. In August, 1993, he started the
nation’s largest Tent City for convicted inmates. Two thousand convicted men
and women serve their sentences in a canvas incarceration compound. It is a
remarkable success story that has attracted the attention of government
officials, presidential candidates, and media worldwide.
Of equal success and
notoriety are his chain gangs, which contribute thousands of dollars of free
labor to the community. The male chain gang, and the world’s first-ever female
and juvenile chain gangs, clean streets, paint over graffiti, and bury the
indigent in the county cemetery.
Also impressive are
the Sheriff’s get tough policies. For example, he banned smoking, coffee,
movies, pornographic magazines, and unrestricted TV in all jails. He has the
cheapest meals in the U.S. too. The average meal costs between 15 and 40 cents,
and inmates are fed only twice daily, to cut the labor costs of meal delivery.
He even stopped serving them salt and pepper to save tax payers $20,000 a year.”
His treatment of
prisoners is clearly meant to humiliate and torture prisoners. And Arpaio’s excuse
is the voters like it. If Americans can vote away someone’s human rights, they
should not complain about the prisons in DPRK.
-សតិវ អតុ
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