{"id":371707,"date":"2018-08-01T17:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T16:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-worlds-biggest-prison-camp\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T16:49:59","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-prison-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-worlds-biggest-prison-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Biggest Prison Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States has the highest incarceration rates in the world. The US not only has a far higher percentage of its population in prison than allegedly \u201cauthoritarian\u201d governments, but also has a larger total number of citizens imprisoned than China, a country with four times the US population. The US is by far the largest prison camp in the world.<\/p>\n

The conditions, such as solitary confinement, in which many US prisoners are kept are strictly illegal under international law, but that means nothing to \u201cfreedom and democracy America.\u201d Solitary confinement, especially confinement inside tiny cells, is like being buried alive. Yet, \u201cfreedom and democracy America\u201d is subjecting more than 100,000 citizens to this horror as I write. We hear so much about \u201cAmerica\u2019s moral conscience,\u201d but where is this conscience?<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Other prisoners are used as a cheap workforce for US military and consumer industries. Prison labor and the privatization of prisons have created an enormous demand for prisoners. American citizens are shoveled into the profit-making prison system regardless of innocence or guilt.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There is no doubt that a large percentage of US prisoners are innocent or imprisoned for victimless crimes, such as drug use. According to official US government statistics, 97 percent of all felonies are settled with plea bargains. Consequently, the police evidence and prosecutor\u2019s case is never tested in court. Not even the innocent want a trial, because the jurors are brainwashed and biased against everyone charged, and the punishments that result from trial conviction are much harsher than those given to a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The United States has the highest incarceration rates in the world. The US not only has a far higher percentage of its population in prison than allegedly \u201cauthoritarian\u201d governments, but also has a larger total number of citizens imprisoned than China, a country with four times the US population. The US is by far the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}