The Us Has The Largest Prison Population In The World

The US has the largest prison population in the world and its prisons, also known as penitentiaries or just jailhouses are all overcrowded and rotting and stinking. Yet the US is ever always so fond of making loud noises eleswhere. One of the more famous prisons is Pelican Bay prison in the state of california. This prison is always at least one third overcrowded and the prison has some of the worst civil rights abuse records in the whole world. Typically, almost all the inmates in Pelican Bay prison are regarded as among the most dangerous and aggressive kinds of prisoners available in the whole of the US. This is partly due to the bad treatment meted out to them and the general feelings of hopelessness that circulate inside. Pelican Bay is a maximum security facility. There are more than 1,000 armed guards working around the clock. The inmates inside have to adjust fast to the secret prison gang culture that permeates every corner in Pelican Bay if they at all wished to survive their stay there. This particular hellhole is roughly divided into two areas. One area is designated for the rotten and the incorrigible. The other is fenced off for inmates classified as outright creatures of hellish origins. This area is also known as the SHU. The SHU would make WW2 prison camp commanders proud. All the prisoners held here are virtually kept in solitary confinement day after day. This might be welcome to some, but for many, this is the very first step on the journey to become totally dehumanised by the US government. In the whole of the US, there are over 25,000 such inmates serving time in solitary confinement. Still, all kinds of illegal activities are able to take place inside the jailhouse, including the SHU. This is the true picture of life in US prisons. Full of horrors that other people think exist only in movies. These activities include smuggling drugs, attacking other prisoners, giving out orders to kill a particular person and also recruiting new prison gang members. All these are also happening in Pelican Bay all the time as well. Due to the very harsh conditions and the cruel prison life, some prisoners have suffered mental breakdowns or gone totally bonkers. A few have attempted suicide. Others however, have clung on to the prison gang culture rigidly to maintain their sanity and also to have some measure of mutual protection and physical safety. So violence is part and parcel of life inside places like Pelican Bay. But not greatly different from life outside it anyway. Prison guards at Pelican Bay inmates, so torture or rough for use in controlling these past have accused the guards hot water scaldings and many

are taught how to handle the physical treatment are alright people. Prisoners have in the of excessive use of force, unusual forms of punishments.

This hellish environment have turned the inmates into men willing to risk anything, even their lives to hang onto the last shred of sanity and to keep metal illness at bay. As such, prison quarrels and fights and brawls often take place over the slightest excuse if only to prevent the mind from getting unbalanced. These quarrels provide a channel for releasing pent-up emotions but at the same instance, they could always easily get out of hand. There have been a number of occasions in Pelican Bay where quarrels between rival groups resulted in fatalities. The deaths were either caused by guards or by fellow inmates using self-made weapons. Desperation and hopelessness have combined inside Pelican Bay and other jails to force the inmates to use even the rarest of creativity to make deadly weapons out of almost nothing. In February 2000, about 200 of the inmates were involved in a serious fight and one was shot dead by the guards. About ninety prison-made weapons were discovered after the incident. Similar fights broke out again in January, June and also in December 2008 and again in June 2009. Smaller incidents also took place including isolated cases of deaths among the prisoners possibly due to beatings by guards or prison bullies. Some Pelican Bay guards have been suspected of inducing some prisoners to attack other prisoners. US jails like at Pelican Bay are all very overcrowded with the inmates forced to live in terrible conditions and in a general state of mental distress. The places are usually filled with a population consisting mostly of minorities and all these factors helped to foster prison gang fights and racial hatred. Often these confrontations spread to the outside and innocent people then are killed or murdered. US politicians are certainly hypocrites and outright shameless double-dealers on the treatment of both its own people and its prisoners as human beings. US jail guards and wardens are also known to practise an unwritten 'code of silence'. In other words, they do not voice out but keep very quiet should they ever come across any act of illegal behaviour by the guards or wardens. This code of silence has kept alive the widespread prison abuse and many acts of torture in US jails right up to even now. US leaders including the Prize winners have kept so very damningly silent on the widespread violations against the basic rights and other civil rights of human beings in the US. Perhaps it's because the moans and tears of pain are never heard by or even seen by these very wise guys. But they are able to even hear a foreign fish farting 1,000km away. It is nothing but hypocrisy. Pure and simple. The US is a nation of unparalleled hypocrites and torturers. The rest of the world must forever remember it !!