| > It is in fact about rehabilitation which is why the criminal justice system and prisons have rehabilitation and education programs. Just because some US prisons have rehabilitation and education programs does not mean that's the focus of the system as a whole. What that actually looks like can be observed in many other places, places with much lower recidivism rates, much lower incarceration rates, much higher qualification and training demands for the guards, and most important of all; No profit expectations. > I was referring to your Reuters article. And that Reuters article is still about domestic prisons, please read it more carefully. > To expect to roam around freely as you wish within a prison seems like a ridiculous proposition and inherently presents a security risk to the institution. His main demand was unsupervised interviews with prisoners, which is a very legitimate demand if he wants to get even remotely anything useful out of that visit. Or do you really expect potential torture victims to openly speak out, when they know their torturer is standing right behind them, ready to punish them the moment the UN envoy leaves? Would you accept such conditions if the country in question here was Russia or China? Then why should anybody accept such conditions from the US? Why even set such conditions in the very first place? |