Video does'nt work.
I was in an american prison for 5 years.
Sounds interesting, can you fix it?

Sorry, don't know much about computers. Used the link and got through about 5 minutes.
I would say it's kind of like driving a car. Majority of the time it's fine for everyone, but you could put together a compilation of all of the auto accidents in America and paint a pretty grim picture of the automobile.
Sure you got rough spots like whozits with the brake problems right now, but for the most part abuse is much more mental than physical.

Originally posted by hoghead cheese

Torture happens in American prisons, you can count on it. The US locks up more people in prison than China. It's the leading country for prisoners with 2.3 million as of 2009 compared to China's distant second of 1.6 million people who have 4 times our population and alot poorer. Whats the definition of a police state?

Thats because in China they simply EXECUTE the scum...and lock up the others. WE on the other hand lock up EVERYONE and let them sit on death row, make excuses for this, for that, etc...so OF COURSE it appears we lock up more. In other countries they GET RID of problems, they don't keep them at bay.

Also, you might wanna go visit a federal prison or state prison and see how your treated by those folks before you get to emotional. Unless you have been there. If not, youtube prison riot, prison fight, prison anything and the video you posted will pretty much seem moot.

Are there guys/gals locked up who leanred their lesson and can be released...sure. Are there people locked up who could of been given probation instead of jail time...sure...but the prison system in the US is one of the easiest on the planet....so I am not going to cry for them to much.

it's better to say nothing and just let nature run it's course.

[edit on 25-2-2010 by thaknobodi]

Prison is just like the society which imprisons it, only superconcentrated, like detergent. Yet dirtier, not cleaner.

9 x 7?
I'm 5 foot 6 and could touch the opposite wallls in my cells.
If you're cursing and swearing at staff, you're gonna get it! How hard is that to understand?
Prison is EXTREMELY BORING!
I can't count how many brutal conflicts by staff and inmates I've witnessed, heard of, or been in that were caused by our MOUTHS!
Corruption abounds in our government as it does in our prisons.
Microcosm. On all levels, Microcosm

[edit on 26-2-2010 by Tyler 720]