Posted on 06/30/2013 12:38:00 PM PDT by cunning_fish
yEESH...suicide would be better.
Compared to here -- Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick "Free-em-all-Deval" (D, of course) declared that not giving prisoners a choice of underpants color is a human rights violation.
Our prisons are overflowing. I say contract it out.
these are lifers....but it would be an idea for teenage punks...6 mos to a year and that would do it.
In fact they’ve covered four prisons there. Black Dolphin is a supermax, probably worst in the world.
just finished it-I’m impressed.
Olympic athletes reported encountering filthy conditions in a hospital when an ice skater was taken following a car accident. Pooling blood, filthy used medical instruments stained with congealing blood and dirt. Dirty conditions throughout the whole place. Yet this prison is sparkling clean?
Russia has a murder rate 5 times that of the US? But they don’t have weapons and you have to register knives? (still watching)
I used to work with SOviets. The most feared/joked about prison was “Magadan” (sp?). Not featured in this video.
Great video though.
Finished the vid. As unbelievably harsh as the conditions are - they might result in people who emerge from prison as intended (unwilling to risk being imprisoned again) as opposed to our hard security prisons where men are raped daily and then released with the expectation that they will blend in with normal people.
My son and I watched this the night before I day at the USNA. He looked at me and said that plebe year will be a piece of cake compared to that.
I agree. Almost everything the government touches loses money and efficiency. Better to let a private firm that can actually get results handle the business of incarceration.
I agree, It’s a classic case for David Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Economic Advantage. What is Russia good at? Running prisons. What are we good at? Producing prisoners.
We can contract with the Russians to house our prisoners at a fraction of the cost it takes us to do it, plus we could reduce the size of government in the process and save even more. It would even help the airlines out financially by flying them there and back when their sentence was up. The airlines treat everyone like prisoners already, so what is to them to add few additional security precautions.
Sounds like a deal to me.
>>>Does not Russian justice system have capital punishment ?<<<
Life in Black Dolphin is practically a maximal punishment in Russia. Their use of death penalty was extremely rare since 1953 after Joe Stalin’s death thus legally it is not abolished and still part of their criminal code. Anyway, last person was executed in Russia in 1996. It was Sergey Fisher who raped and murdered 11 young boys aged 10-16 in a period of 1986-1992. This guy was sick, he had a torture chamber under his garage, skinned his victims.
They had maniac who murdered 50+, a muslim terrorist who downed an aircraft with a manpad murdering 130+ passengers and crew after 1996 but they both got life in Dolphin.
>>>>Russia has a murder rate 5 times that of the US? But they don’t have weapons and you have to register knives? (still watching)<<<<
In fact they have a variety of weapons available in Russia, both legal and illegal. A majority of assault firearms are pretty legal in Russia, such as SKS or SVD rifle.
Handguns are actually limited, but it is not impossible to legally own and carry if you really want it.
In fact Magadan is not a prison but a territory - a Russian North Pacific. Magadan is a remote city, there is a Kolyma river known to have a permafrost bottom. In order to get there you have to drive on “the road of bones” (of the prisoners who built it). In fact Magadan district was a place of numerous prison camps until 1950s notorious for it’s high death rate due to a harsh climate conditions. Most of them were closed in 1950s with a dismantling of Stalin’s gulag system.
It seemed to work fine though.
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