New Cartoon Review: Prisons are a business, is "Human Rights Beacon" blushing?

　　In the normal concept, prisons are places where the state carries the function of punishing inmates, but in the United States, which has always claimed to be a "beacon of human rights", private prisons have become "businesses" for profit. Is it unexpected?

Shocked or not?

　　The UN official website once published an article stating that UN human rights experts urged the United States to "cancel all for-profit detention facilities", emphasizing that detainees should not be targeted for profit.

In the past 40 years, private prisons in the United States have continued to expand amid criticism, forming lucrative industries and groups.

　　In order to achieve the "occupancy rate", private prisons have tried every means to buy off judicial officials and impose severe or extended sentences on inmates for misdemeanor crimes, even teenage children.

The American documentary "Kids for Money" once revealed that two judges in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, charged millions of dollars in kickbacks from private prison companies. From 2003 to 2008, they successively charged thousands of teens with misdemeanors without lawyers' defense. Sentenced to a private prison, the youngest incarcerated is only 10 years old.

　　Even more frightening is that prisoners in private prisons have almost become "modern slaves".

American journalist Sean Ball spent 4 months undercover in private prisons and wrote his book "American Prisons: American Capital and Game of Thrones", exposing forced labor, exploitation, abuse, corruption and many other chaos in private prisons .

In private prisons, prisoners are treated as labor machines, and their expenses such as food and clothing are reduced. Even when prisoners are critically ill and must be sent to the doctor, private prisons will ignore their needs and deliberately delay.

　　Many American politicians are always "proud" to let the American-style "human rights beacon" shine in all directions, but why are they introspective and blushing in the face of scandals such as "prisons turned into business"?

Could it be that you are really used to "being stricter than others and lenient with yourself"?