[relictele]

calling the country’s penal system into question.

Grimly hilarious. Has Russia's penal system ever been OUT of question?

[cunning_fish]

To me a penal system like this is a good reason to abide laws and stay out of it.

[SMARTY]

I remember reading about the treatment of UN prisoners in N Korea during that fight.

The N Koreans said that UN prisoners were not treated any differently than ordinary criminals and other civil prisoners in that country. It was a level of negligence, abuse and brutality beyond anything you can imagine.

THAT is amazing! Americans have NO clue how backward, violent and inhumane the rest of the world is...yet Liberals constantly blather away about some BS global model that the US is supposed to emulate or a global test they say we are failing!!!! I honestly wish more Americans could afford to travel to some of these backwater s%$# holes... THEN they'd come home with an appreciation of just how well off we are here.