The US today has the most number of people behind bars or in

other words, the biggest collection of humans who are silently

rotting away in its prisons and jails. About 2,300,000 people
are wasting their lives away inside the gross and very badly
unpleasant cells of US federal, state and local district jails.
Inside these cells and cubicles are taking place real events
and vivid tales of unbelievable horror that are probably not
found anywhere else.
Torture, systematic abuse, gang warfare, terror, drugs, sex
slavery, racial violence and a thousand and one other total
unmentionables exist in these places.
Despite all these terrible developments, the justice system
in the US is completely hell-bent on sending as many more as
possible to these places. The result is very bad overcrowding
within the walls of US prisons and this has forced conditions
inside to deteriorate greatly and its residents are slowly
being turned into animals. It is said that US prisons are
the very institutions for serious criminal learning.
The US is a society where the fast, the quick and the tricky
and the powerful get the advantage over others. Despite its
many colleges, legal institutions and other centres of great
human learning and knowledge, there is no genuine justice or
real fairness in US society. In countless scenes throughout
the US, minority people are often stopped by the authorities
and detained for very minor or even totally imaginary offences.
Any person foolish enough to object to the actions of these
people in uniform are either met with fists, arms or tasers
and thrown into local jails. They can then expect to face a
number of trumped up charges like 'disorderly conduct' plus
'abusive behaviour'. This is why many normally and ordinarily
innocent people often find themselves inside the completely
alien jail cells of Uncle Sam. Possibly one in twenty males
in the US resides in these cells at any one time today.
The composition of the jail population in the US is said to
broadly reflect the kind of social maladies in the country.
Many people routinely stopped by US police are from minority
groups and the same thing is reflected in the prison dwellers.
Seventy per cent of convicted felons in the US are non-whites.
Most offences are related to urban poverty, unemployment, the
dire lack of social opportunities and an abundance of drugs.
So unbelievable, yet this situation still exists in the US.
However, the composition of jail guards, wardens and officers
is just the opposite. The overwhelming majority of them are
whites and are males even in women's facilities. Shocking.
This lopsided population composition of US jails of both staff
and inmates has led to a number of very serious problems. In
many prison facilities in the US, the white minority inside
these jails group together and form criminal gangs for mutual
protection. They often beat up or kill fellow prisoners plus
hostile wardens. In turn, other groups like the black, Latino
and Asian inmates form their own criminal gangs. These prison
gangs often operate drug rings, protection squads and murder
operations inside and outside their prisons. Sex slavery is
also one part of their daily activities. Sometime rape takes
place among the prisoners with the wardens not bothering to
intervene. Worse, it has been documented that in some prisons
facing budget cuts and possible closures, prison wardens have
often encouraged inmates to use violence against one another.
Their aim is to keep their jobs and perhaps other forms of
side income as well.
These prisons in the US only churn out hardened criminals and
this has led to personal vendettas among former convicts. The
feuds and quarrels that began while in jail are often carried
on once outside. Many people end up murdered, often shot, run
over, dragged to death or gone permanently missing. It is the
source or wellspring of numerous hate crimes in the US.
Other prisoners come out infected with various diseases, some
quite fatal like hepatitis, HIV and other kinds of infections.
Many became ill during imprisonment caused by close proximity
and contact with infected inmates plus the very sorry state of
medical care in US jails. Budgets are being reduced everywhere
for US prisons and money for maintenance and medical costs are
hard to come by. Really unbelievable.
Yet the US government could provide US$700 billion for the US
armed forces. And this amount does not include the operating
costs and daily expenditures of the Afghanistan adventure.
Thus the US is a country not only with the most number of jail
inmates but perhaps also with the worst prison record in the
world. Its prison system has not avoided the so-called practice
of doubling or tripling. This practice refers to the habit of
putting more people into a cell than it can reasonably hold.
As such the jails in the US are like rat nests. More and more
prisoners get crammed in as time goes by. But those facilites
never get enlarged. The result is greatly increasing rates of
mental illness among the prison population.
The US has a lot to answer for with regard to its treatment of
its citizens who have so unluckily found themselves behind metal
bars. But what about those who are non-citizens ? There are about
40,000 foreigners and stateless people in US federal jails and
roughly twice that number in state and local prisons. Certainly
the US is one hellish place for unfortunate people.
It is time for US bosses like Barack, Biden and Clinton to go
inspect the interior of all US jails to see for themselves what
the real situation is like. It is most irresponsible and bad
for these bosses to travel round the globe busily lecturing,
teaching and judging other people !
Judge yourselves first. Take a look at your local jails, then
the ones in Gitmo, the secret cells in many locations overseas
and also those in Afghanistan.
The US indeed has a lot to answer for. It is time to stop all
the travels and get down to work ! How would you explain all
that awful rotting now taking place inside all those US jails ?
The inside of US jails is certainly very similar to the decaying
bellies of dead creatures.
Remember it.