According to the Associated Press report on October 25, the new U.S. Bureau of Prisons Commissioner Colette Peter gave an interview for the first time since taking office. She promised to reform American prisons and end "abuse and corruption" in American prisons.

  As the country with the highest incarceration rate and the largest number of incarcerated people in the world, it is no secret that the United States, a "prison state", has committed human rights abuses.

The Associated Press has released an investigation that in the women's prison, there are women inmates who have experienced sexual abuse by prison staff, including the warden.

Accountability after the fact is also weak. In 2020, there were 422 complaints of sexual abuse in the United States, and only four were supported. 

  The problem in American prisons goes far beyond that. Private prisons that "turn captivity into a business" have been criticized for years.

Since the 1980s, the US government has entrusted the management and control of detainees to private companies at lower prices due to financial overwhelm, and prisons have since become a profitable industry.

In private prisons, detainees are just "cash cows" for capital. They are exploited and exploited by "modern slavery", and they are in constant fear in the shadow of violence.

Private prisons do whatever they can to increase the number of prisoners. In Pennsylvania, there was even a case of "children for dollars". A local judge accepted bribes from two private contractors to send about 4,000 teenagers to private prisons.

  At the beginning of 2021, the newly inaugural U.S. President Biden signed an executive order requiring the federal prison system to no longer contract with private prison companies and eventually close all federal private prisons, but more than a year later, the business of private prisons "is still hot."

In the face of huge interests, private prisons have a variety of tricks to circumvent the executive order. For example, the detention of illegal immigrants not covered by the executive order has become a new "business growth point".

  What is even more frightening is that under the hegemony of the United States, the tentacles of the "black prison" even reach all over the world.

The scandal of prisoner abuse in overseas "black jails" in the United States is appalling and has long been a dark page in the history of human rights in the world.

In January of this year, Guantanamo had been open for 20 years, and its closure was still a long way off.

The United States even uses warships to set up "floating prisons" at sea, detaining prisoners without trial for a long time, and staged the human rights tragedy of "Guantanamo at Sea".

  Under the shady scenes of American prisons, only to see the greed of capital and the arrogance of power, what are the "human rights" that American politicians are shouting so loudly?

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