The secret US prisons you've never heard of before

Started by Unbeliever, April 09, 2019, 07:22:32 PM

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Unbeliever

QuoteInvestigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated â€" even preventing them from hugging their children. Potter, a TED Fellow, shows us who is imprisoned here, and how the government is trying to keep them hidden. "The message was clear," he says. "Don’t talk about this place." Find sources for this talk at willpotter.com/cmu



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuAAPsiD768

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_management_unit


If they can do this to anyone, then they can do it to anyone else, like you and me. Better keep your mouth shut, or you might be tossed into one of these hells.

God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Sal1981

“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Aren't there like 2.3 million people in prisons in the U.S.?

Blackleaf

Quote from: Sal1981 on April 09, 2019, 10:49:59 PM
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Aren't there like 2.3 million people in prisons in the U.S.?

That was the estimate in 2016. And we don't treat them much better once they've finished serving their time. In the US, your debt to society lasts until you die. I just saw an article this morning titled "Ex-con skips job interview, takes shirt off his back to save car crash victim." Guy saves a car crash victim, takes off his shirt to stop the bleeding, and misses a job interview, of which mind you he probably doesn't get many due to his past, and how do they report this good samaritan's deeds? They label him "ex-con."
"Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound."
--Fulke Greville--

Unbeliever

Quote from: Sal1981 on April 09, 2019, 10:49:59 PM
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Aren't there like 2.3 million people in prisons in the U.S.?

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html


QuoteThe American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 109 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories.

God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman