Hard and Horrific. Stories as this one .. excerpt from yours ..
"Jack Powers grew up in Norwich, N.Y., the son of a Vietnam veteran who beat him regularly. Powers ran away from home at 14; a few years later he was sent to prison on burglary charges. He was released in 1982, at 21, and he married and moved to Holland, Mich., where he founded a construction company and beauty salon. But by the end of the decade, both businesses had gone bankrupt, and he began robbing banks — at least 30, according to his 1990 conviction. He never armed himself; he always just slipped a note to the bank teller. He thinks his wife (now ex) turned him in." .. your link .. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/inside-americas-toughest-federal-prison.html?ref=magazine&_r=0
are particularly mind-bogglingly ridiculously sad when you think how different his life could have been if he had gained decent care early.
I saw a documentary on your worst prisons a couple of months ago. More here.
Australian Supermax(s)
Australia's Hardest Prison: Fremantle
INSIDE THE SUPERMAX PRISON AT GOULBURN - PART 1
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As far as i know the Australian effort would be much closer to that of the USA, if not worse in some respects, than it would be to Norway's approach.
Australia's Hardest Prison
About The Show .. Photo Gallery
Witness the tense reality of life in a Super Max from a uniquely Australian perspective.
Over the past decade Australia’s prison population has doubled. But of all the States, it’s Western Australia that has the highest number of prisoners per population. Incarceration rates here are 40 percent higher than the national average. So what is it about the ‘Big Empty’ that causes blokes to end up behind bars? Is it more lawless out West? Are the coppers better at catching crooks? Does the convict past have a stronger influence in Australia’s largest State? One thing is for sure. Serving time in a WA prison is not for the faint hearted. With prison capacity at an all time high, the cell blocks are overflowing. Casuarina, Western Australia’s Maximum Security Prison, is designed for 360 inmates. It currently houses almost double that. For the first time ever, our cameras go inside Casuarina Prison to witness life behind bars in an Australian Super Max. with comments .. http://natgeotv.com.au/tv/australia%27s-hardest-prison/
.. this must be the video connected with that one, which i can't see there .. at least a part of it ..
Australia's Hardest Prison: Fremantle
National Geographic Channel AU Uploaded on Oct 19, 2008
I think i've seen something on Norway's Halden before, too. Chalk and cheese compared to our non-Scandinavian way. After the ADX article this was a breath of fresh air .. excerpt ..
"It is tempting to chalk up all this reasonableness to something peculiar in Norwegian socialization, some sort of civility driven core-deep into the inmates since birth, or perhaps attribute it to their racial and ethnic homogeneity as a group. But in actuality, only around three-fifths of the inmates are legal Norwegian citizens. The rest have come from more than 30 other countries (mostly in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East) and speak little or no Norwegian; English is the lingua franca, a necessity for the officers to communicate with foreign prisoners.
Slide Show|6 Photos Big Home reditKnut Egil Wang for The New York Times
Of the 251 inmates, nearly half are imprisoned for violent crimes like murder, assault or rape; a third are in for smuggling or selling drugs. Nevertheless, violent incidents and even threats are rare, and nearly all take place in Unit A. It is the prison’s most restrictive unit, housing inmates who require close psychiatric or medical supervision or who committed crimes that would make them unpopular in Units B and C, the prison’s more open “living” cell blocks, where the larger population of inmates mixes during the day for work, schooling and therapy programs." .. your link .. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/the-radical-humaneness-of-norways-halden-prison.html?src=me
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