Re: IT-mees Jõhvist: „USA valitsus ja Kim Dotcom röövisid neli aastat minu elust“

[John]

On June 25, 2016 3:28:43 PM EDT, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>http://ekspress.delfi.ee/kuum/it-mees-johvist-usa-valitsus-ja-kim-dotcom-roovisid-neli-aastat-minu-elust?id=74201189
>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/from-file-sharing-to-prison-a-megaupload-programmer-tells-his-story/
>
>The whole case was blackmail. They were just waiting for the defendant
>to get tired of fighting and give up. It’s not the one who’s in the
>right who wins, but the one who has the most staying power.
>
>They never send you straight to where you’re going. You drive through
>a number of other prisons first. If you make trouble, say by
>complaining to the judge that your rights are being violated, you’re
>put through this thing called "diesel therapy." They bounce you back
>and forth between prisons like a ping-pong ball.
>
>I was taken from Alexandria to Brooklyn, from there to Pennsylvania,
>from there back to Brooklyn, and from there to Pennsylvania again—a
>total of about 16 hours of driving. Before I got to where I was meant
>to be going, I was put in two different prisons, one of which was a
>supermax prison where they keep the worst of the worst. I was there
>for 10 days. There are more than 2.5 million prisoners in the United
>States. Almost one percent of the whole population is in prison, and
>that’s a huge problem. But what surprised me most was that there are
>private prisons in the US. The more prisoners, the more money you get
>from the state. It’s big business.
>
>Estonia was the only country that didn’t give its people any support.
>All the other countries gave their prisoners at least some pocket
>money. Even 10-20 euros would’ve been a great help, because you don’t
>even get normal soap for free there, not to mention shampoo. You’re
>given toothpaste whose "best before" was in 2005 and two 20 x 40 cm
>towels for your whole body for half a year.

USA has highest prison population per capita in the world, like 700+ per 100k. Maybe north Korea is a close second, there aren't good numbers available.... it's a fucking horrendous travesty, mostly thanks to drug prohibition and its draconian sentencing.

--
John

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