PRISONS ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE PRETTY:

http://mimbari.livejournal.com/142312.html

November 12-2011.

To. webdesk@france24.com

PRISONS ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE PRETTY:

This was taken from a report on france24.com TV. But what was the intention of incarcerating people anyway?

I think in the earliest days of penal colonies and camps, the idea was to punish those who broke the laws, or indulged in what the state felt was espionage, political unrest/dissent, and ethnic cleansing.

However, today in most developed countries that are affiliated with the United Nations are expected to honor the tenets of Human Rights Declaration, and most prisons seem to confirm to the basic expectations that are required, to ensure that all prisoners are treated humanely.

Humane treatment also has certain cultural connotations to it, because some would say that in China, Russia, Cuba, the united States, Eastern European countries, or (former Soviet Block Countries), the treatment therein is much to be desired.

Albeit, most ordinary people do not know what happens behind the prison walls in their respective countries, and most would never know anyway. But I presume most would want to believe that apart from the inmates paying for their crimes, they are also being re-habilitated with certain basic skills, and education, which would allow those who eventually leave that system to find gainful employment once again.

Derryck.
NYC.