I think this kind of reporting is why I respect Abby Martin. It sets the record straight regardless of what anybody thinks of it. Abby has guts to tell it like it is.
I love these Abby Martin Empire documentaries. They've all been fantastic. This is one of the finest. Compulsive viewing. I hope one day the American people do rise up and pitchfork the 1%. They fucking deserve it!
This is the most straightforward honest reporting I've seen on the prison system. Plus the Brother gave a deep detailed breakdown of the economic social structure, "... and you have to find some way to contain it if you're not gonna solve it". Yeah, and you can bet that the next step is if you can no longer contain it then you'll just have to eliminate it (it another word for them).
YEAH ABBY MARTIN! Anyone who thinks we abolished slavery needs only look at our imprisoned labor forces. Slavery is almost as popular now as it was in it's height in the 1860's.
I wonder if there is any science allowed in the prison debate? Other countries seem to be really interested in the big picture of crime and how to reduce it. In the US it seems to be about a lot of other things, like profiteering.
pablo gonzalez balli She's been doing her job since she was on RT. All she did was move from a news network to this network. (No strings attached it seems. Sweet deal if you ask me.)
Dostoyevsky's 1885 description of life in Russian prison in "The House of the Dead" very similar to what we see here...thanks Abby for this informative piece of journalism.
"It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it." - John Pilger Abby Martin is a towering example of a journalist who understands - and DOES what their job demands!✊
What most people don't know is that in some states Sheriff gets money for food, but if it manages to save money, Sheriff gets to spend that money anyway he/she wants. I'm talking spending that money for example on a beach house. I know, some people won't believe that. I suggest to Google that. In other situations judges were getting kickbacks from privately owned prisons. Don't they have an extra motivation to send people behind bars?
Increasingly, government doesn't represent the best interests of the people, but instead caters to the billionaire class that finances and controls it's politicians.
It blew my mind that 30-40% of CA fire fighters are prisoners. So they're bad people and deserve punishment, but you're cool with trusting them with your life? Sounds like you need to make up your mind how you feel about inmates.
Thank you Abby. This subject needs to be investigated and exposed. This is something most people don't want to look at. I knew it was bad, but not this bad. Work camp. Free labor. Cruelty. Slavery. Huge money, Especially the private prisons. I've seen the insanity of good but poor people being kidnapped by the system first hand in California where one speeding ticket can send a man or woman on a journey through hell for years moving in and out of county jails. Many lose their jobs, their homes, credit, everything. Again, thanks!!
Rom An This kind of show will not be viewed in corporate media. Typical huh? I have to ask, how else, outside Best of the Left, can shows or networks like this one can be promoted? This kind of show and network should be promoted overall. There should be means to promote, so more can view unabated.
I talked to an older guy once who was in a Texas prison in the early 80's. He was caught making alcohol from fermenting fruit. As punishment not only was he put in solitary confinement for a month but his diet was cut down to a spoonful of peanut butter and a slice of turnip, a day. It was legal, in Texas at least, to use starvation as punishment up until the mid 80's.
Did anyone hear her say “regardless of race people with low incomes or no income are more likely to be harassed and fined by the police”.......It’s true.
Humans do not deserve this planet... proven day by day, week by week, year by year, millennium by millennium... so much hate, greed, etc. etc. makes me cry inside. .
+Brett Gleason I wasn't responding to your comment, but Astavakra. Personally, I refuse to become a misanthrope. If we truly didn't deserve this planet, there'd be no reason to fight and die for Human Life, let alone Human Rights.
+Brett Gleason Sir.....why are you apologizing for!!!!!!! You have every right to feel that way because i say it a thousand times a day!!!!! Humans claim to be tolerant, peaceful, understanding, kind and caring wears the proof. All this shit for what......All the wars we fought for what, all the so-call advanced tech for what.....FOR PROFIT that's what our specs is DUN, FINISH, AT ROPES END!!!!!!!
Approximately 50% of U.S. prisoners are incarcerated for drug offenses for drugs that account for 29x less death per year then legal drugs (alcohol and tobacco). The U.S. has 4.4% of the worlds population and apx. 22% of the worlds prison population. The U.S. prisons are atrocious, in many cases prisoners are held in tortuous conditions. The overcrowding is obscene, the dehumanization and careless disregard for the inmates is deplorable, as well as the complete absence of care from the public outside the prison walls. Apx. 10% of prisoners are held in for-profit private prisons. Slavery in prison is rampant, as slavery was never abolished in the U.S. contrary to popular mythology, it was only ever downsized to allow only for prison slavery (read the 13th amendment). The situation is completely out of control. Meanwhile, the authorities violate the 'laws' perpetually, to the point of twisting any rationalization that we live in a 'criminal justice system' out of reach. There are alternative examples of how things can be different, such as Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, etc. prison systems, and Portugal and others decriminalization of drugs, not to mention the laws that are perpetually broken still on the books that the public can demand that the authorities be held accountable to. The only thing lacking is the awareness and the willingness to do something about it.
Great JOB Ms. Abby Martin. Yes, we need to have some changes in the prison system, the legal system and political system. I would like to see you do a story on the private prisons that have been growing. #Stradog in Gun Barrel City, Texas with Citizens Action Network and We The People-United.
Thank you, Abby. You're one of the very few real journalists left in this country. Your work is absolutely priceless. 🙏🙏 This was so hard and heart-wrenching to watch. I hope abolishing privatized prisons will be part of the BLM protest demands.
I would like to officially recognize Abby Martin as the best reporter anywhere in the world. Eat your heart out MSM, you could have had her on one of your networks but, you sold your souls to the US devil, she would never work for you! Abby, i love all the work you do....keep up the fight!
Great work just one thing 14:51 patriarchy? I don't think so. I don't care if the murderer women was "abused" or was "defending" herself if she escalated to killing she probably belongs in jail. MEN ARE CHARGED 63% MORE FOR THE SAME CRIME. There was actually a bill that was going to make it so the genders are charged equally but it was shot down.
the thing is it depends what prison you go to and what state you are in federal vs state but ive heard people say theyd like to go back to prison some have conjugal visits and watch tv have an hour of internet healthcare and no rent. Truly dpends who you are and where you land such as the innmates smoking dope in thier cells
Thank you abby. I mean not only are you intelligent, and spot on, but you're also gorgeous. Thanx again. Keep up the great great work you do. Shame the Empire. How sad though that so many of us move about as if all were ok. It's not!!!!!!!!!!!!
I stopped traveling to the U_ because of the fear ! It struck me one march morning 1999, As I stopped my car to look over a map (was paper maps back then LOL) the radio was on in my car, and a hourly news segment began on the radio. They were saying that an inmate at the Gainsville correction facility was executed at a specific time just a few minutes ago....As I was hearing this, I looked up to see where i'm at according to my map.....I was parked across the street of that Gainesville institution ! It shocked me deeply and I never went to the U_ again after this time and Not going back anytime soon. Nice place to visit but too much risk. I mean they kill people there !
Abby. your reporting is top of the line. And first class. I'm a very big fan. America have always try to tell the World how and when to live. When America have tons of there own problems. I never knew why America's think they are better then the rest of the world. Yes America prison system is a mess. But I have to disagree with you with the prisoners doing a days work. They have free meals& housing and medical needs. So inmates lobby to me isn't wrong. They should work. But they the prisoner's should have better rights& laws behind bar's. I don't like that prisons not providing meals to inmates that the Warden wouldn't eat. Abby you are a beautiful lady. 💜
That's pretty grim. I mean China and India together account for like 2/3rds of the world population and neither even figure into that prison population graph towards the start of this video. Of course both have the death penalty (which China uses far more than India these days) but one would expect them to have among the largest prison populations in proportion to their overall populations.
Me too! And Eddie I know those North Vietnamese were invading the West Coast coming to take away our freedom to drive 2 ton V-8 powered Yank Tanks and eat KFC by the bucket in '67. But I forgive you for not going to Vietnam to fight for 'Our Freedumb'. Us American kids should have taken a que from what was going on 'unreported' in Paris in '68. But what we ended up with by November '68 was the same ol' same ol'
The reason non-whites are such a high percentage of prisoners ...is mostly the same reason that criminals in general are. Our "Northern European" ancestry population has about the same crime rate as those in Northern Europe.
YEAH .. ITS THE SAME HERE IN Australia....but we don't get the ridiculous disproportionate sentences that is absolutely the worst thing in the US I . I THINK OF ALL THEM BOYS THAT HAVE LOST THIER FREE LIVES .. MY HEART IS WITH THEM
it is a terrible problem this prison system i hope to never have to deal with it.but what is the solution? what do we do with pedophile,serial killers rapists and violent unrepentant criminal? do these people deserve to live after they rob someone of their lives?
just to wager a guess, i would guess Abby is not a Christian....but....she shows more Christian empathy and is closer to the teachings of Jesus than any "Christian" I know....
I successfully sued the Warden of a county jail "servicing" a large metropolitan area in Federal Court as a pro-se litigant. The grounds for my civil complaint were that my 8th amendment rights were being violated due to inadequate caloric and nutritional depravation. I had my name legally changed, so the civil action is not under jones. If you want to contact me Abby, consider this message my permission for You-Tube to release my email information to you. The information I can provide to you will do more to change the system than this or any video that I have seen if you were to get your hands dirty and spread the information to the victims of incarceration nation. Sincerely Mr. Jones
wow, tell the truth. where else can you get free labor and get paid? minimum wages is just too high. it sad to see those who is honest human being have to stay behind bar.
I want to post this to my Facebook page, however I can't. This is because the chart showing the relative prison populations of various countries around the world lacks a China entry. I play to a tough crowd and they will gladly pull me up in the face of this glaring omission. Usually I hear that the US is second only to China in the number of people incarcerated - which is a very bad reflection on the so-called "Land of the Free". It would be nice to see where the two countries stand relative to one another and is a must have for the sake of legitimate unbiased reporting. Please include China on the chart so that I can share this with my friends. Thanks. P.S. Keep up the great work!
American prison is the 8th world wonder. I wonder why they still haven't made it commercial attraction like "Bad People Safari". Please don't feed the prisoners.
She missed a major point. One religion stands out as the fastest growing in US prisons. Maybe solitary confinement is the govt's way of curbing conversions.
Although this has some factual information and is well done, the statistics are presented with too much bias. Example: There are more police patrolling poor neighbourhoods. WHAT?! You mean police patrol an area with higher crime using more resources? That just makes sense from a budgetary stand point to me.
police brutality and the US becoming a police state with the biggest gang of killer-thugs dressed in blue , what with swat raids at inncorrect locations !, excessive use of deadly force! the usual response at any and all examples of non compliance or resentment to authority enough to result in a summary execution , not unusual or uncommon , all a daily occurance in the largest police state on the planet !! you can say the training sucks or is excessive or the paramilitary appearence and tactics used in policing just another example of surplus military hardware being deployed in homeland US of A even a police officer of the 80s becoming almost unrecognisable compared to the black uniform assault rifle bearing officer deemed equipped efficently to "protect an serve " .......but in reality what once was the most admired and liberated land on earth has within a short span of a few generations/decades morphed into the most surveilled ,listened to /bugged , incarcerated and controlled examples of totalitarian "democracy ", shocking images , heinous abuse of power and everyday excusing justified death , its nothing new , just we get to see it more these days , thanks to everyone owning a handy camera these days and being able to record these abuses of horrendous violence - i often wonder will one of these brutal killings be the spark to ignite the brooding tinderbox the US has become racial divides and huge disparity between the haves and have nots , lighting the fires of revolution - hard to watch doc - but worthwhile , if even just to educate oneself on how to do ones best to survive a minor traffic violation , or misdemeanour , which depending on how much you react , which side of bed Mr Officer got out of this morning and your skin colour and local .... can result in your journey being detoured into a one way trip to the morgue in a body bag !! ~the only thing i see being protected and served is the power base of corporate USA , its totalitarian reality dished up to the millions of football watching bud swilling overweight pleb , unwashed masses , too busy watching honey boo Bah or dancing with some plastic hollywood icon !! - i fear the end of the empire of the US of exporting democracy is nigh - the next "real "war the US shall wage and let loose industrial death upon its own citizens for a change instead of democratically chosen governments , states and countries , 221 years of warfare / +- 18 years of peace isnt a good record esp for a land so outspoken about freedom , liberty and equality -the recent fabricated wars upon drugs / terrorism contrived ,along with illegal wars and invasions into Irak and afghanista lest we forget every society in hstory has used warfare as one of its most lucrative and influential forces its society could employ - the Mil Ind Com, now so empowered with millionaire oligarchy like political system based purely on and for $$$s rendering any form of democratic process obsolete and impotent ~ i used to laugh at the old east block states names , usually the democratic republic would in reality mean , most spyed on stasi style ,lacking in any freedom where now in reality it is those dreaming the American dream which always was a nightmare to the others whos lives of suffering was the cost they paid for said dream - NSA , TSA - patriot act like legislature , Mil Ind Com, DHS et al serving up the police state those in the highest echelons of power demand - some of my favourite people are US citizens , yet i dispise the system they live under , the over glorification of service and warfare , applause at airports for passing military all symbols we,ve seen before in our not too distant past , in Europe - learn to think for yourself , live and love so also as much as possible and realise the demands [aka laws ] our Govts expect from us , is not held by said governing powers themselves - our world is a very different place mass media and the script writers would have us believe ,......................... if this was too long and did interupt bud swilling , toddlers and tiaras never mind !! its all gonna be alright ! lol
+Jin Jude Except that China has 1.6 million prisoners, vs America's 2.2 million, so in absolute numbers you're wrong. Plus China has four times as many people, so as a percentage of population America has far, far more prisoners. How the hell, in an age where everyone has access to Google, does someone make a statement like "China definitely has..." when a two second search reveals the indisputable fact that China definitely does not have anywhere near the amount of prisoners that the U.S. has?
I think this kind of reporting is why I respect Abby Martin. It sets the record straight regardless of what anybody thinks of it. Abby has guts to tell it like it is.
And it’s 2023 now and no improvement has been made
Abby Martin = a sane voice in the wilderness
I love these Abby Martin Empire documentaries. They've all been fantastic. This is one of the finest. Compulsive viewing. I hope one day the American people do rise up and pitchfork the 1%. They fucking deserve it!
This is the most straightforward honest reporting I've seen on the prison system. Plus the Brother gave a deep detailed breakdown of the economic social structure, "... and you have to find some way to contain it if you're not gonna solve it". Yeah, and you can bet that the next step is if you can no longer contain it then you'll just have to eliminate it (it another word for them).
Awesome job Abby Martin. More please.
Information & Education - thank you.
YEAH ABBY MARTIN! Anyone who thinks we abolished slavery needs only look at our imprisoned labor forces. Slavery is almost as popular now as it was in it's height in the 1860's.
Slavery really still exists in the world in various forms, including prisons and many jobs.
I wonder if there is any science allowed in the prison debate? Other countries seem to be really interested in the big picture of crime and how to reduce it. In the US it seems to be about a lot of other things, like profiteering.
Just entirely so embarrased to be called American. Absolutely a history of insanity.
Sorry, you should be!
Don't be embarrassed, be part of the solution. We can be the heroes we've been waiting for.
That's absurd.
You shouldn't be proud or ashamed based off where you were born.
Whoa, crazy video. How does this only have 366 views. Really glad I watched, and I had no idea prison labor is a big thing.
+Biron Clark up to almost 36,650 one month later, not bad... could be better though!
+Kashaka Bedeau Yes it is disgusting we still do this to so many people for corporate profits.
Thank you Abby Martin!
you are the voice of a new generation, I admire your valor.
pablo gonzalez balli She's been doing her job since she was on RT. All she did was move from a news network to this network. (No strings attached it seems. Sweet deal if you ask me.)
Dostoyevsky's 1885 description of life in Russian prison in "The House of the Dead" very similar to what we see here...thanks Abby for this informative piece of journalism.
I noticed that too 😅
A devastating reality.
Excellent work!
Well done Abby, keep up this brilliant work, so inspiring....
very good reporting.
Thank you Abby. Such a genuine journalist.
Amazing work as always Abby!
"It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it." - John Pilger
Abby Martin is a towering example of a journalist who understands - and DOES what their job demands!✊
Don’t have to imagine it, been there, lived it, and will never forget it as much as I’d like to.
What most people don't know is that in some states Sheriff gets money for food, but if it manages to save money, Sheriff gets to spend that money anyway he/she wants. I'm talking spending that money for example on a beach house. I know, some people won't believe that. I suggest to Google that. In other situations judges were getting kickbacks from privately owned prisons. Don't they have an extra motivation to send people behind bars?
Increasingly, government doesn't represent the best interests of the people, but instead caters to the billionaire class that finances and controls it's politicians.
Shared! Love you, Abby!
What would you expect ? almost everything is illegal .
That guy at 19:39 speaks the truth. God bless him. And may god help us all live in peace and prosperity
It blew my mind that 30-40% of CA fire fighters are prisoners. So they're bad people and deserve punishment, but you're cool with trusting them with your life? Sounds like you need to make up your mind how you feel about inmates.
welcome back
27 stinking pig Screws thumbing down... Thank you Abby! Keep up the honest work.
Thank you Abby.
This subject needs to be investigated and exposed.
This is something most people don't want to look at.
I knew it was bad, but not this bad.
Work camp. Free labor. Cruelty. Slavery.
Huge money, Especially the private prisons.
I've seen the insanity of good but poor people being kidnapped by the system first hand in California where one speeding ticket can send a man or woman on a journey through hell for years moving in and out of county jails. Many lose their jobs, their homes, credit, everything.
Again, thanks!!
Good show abby
Not only does Abby Martin do great investigative, uncovering work, she's also a gorgeous woman.
Rom An This kind of show will not be viewed in corporate media. Typical huh? I have to ask, how else, outside Best of the Left, can shows or networks like this one can be promoted?
This kind of show and network should be promoted overall. There should be means to promote, so more can view unabated.
I talked to an older guy once who was in a Texas prison in the early 80's. He was caught making alcohol from fermenting fruit. As punishment not only was he put in solitary confinement for a month but his diet was cut down to a spoonful of peanut butter and a slice of turnip, a day. It was legal, in Texas at least, to use starvation as punishment up until the mid 80's.
Jesus, that is a terrible prison system.
-China
Did anyone hear her say “regardless of race people with low incomes or no income are more likely to be harassed and fined by the police”.......It’s true.
muy buen reportaje ...A. Martin siempre aborda temas interesantes y hace buenas investigaciones
binge watching
Humans do not deserve this planet... proven day by day, week by week, year by year, millennium by millennium... so much hate, greed, etc. etc. makes me cry inside.
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+Astavakra1981 Well, you obviously have no idea how IQ works.
+KeyofEden7 NO I JUST LET MY EMOTIONS GET THE BEST OF ME, FORGIVE MY IGNORANCE
+Brett Gleason I wasn't responding to your comment, but Astavakra.
Personally, I refuse to become a misanthrope. If we truly didn't deserve this planet, there'd be no reason to fight and die for Human Life, let alone Human Rights.
+Brett Gleason Sir.....why are you apologizing for!!!!!!! You have every right to feel that way because i say it a thousand times a day!!!!! Humans claim to be tolerant, peaceful, understanding, kind and caring wears the proof. All this shit for what......All the wars we fought for what, all the so-call advanced tech for what.....FOR PROFIT that's what our specs is DUN, FINISH, AT ROPES END!!!!!!!
Simply, beyond belief.
And to think that some people would say, "they deserve it" or "deserve something worst".
Sheep watch mainstream media, people awake watch Abby Martin!
Great work Abby.
We have to change the system.
Privately owned prisons no over site
All virtues and positive attributes of the USA are all but gone.
Approximately 50% of U.S. prisoners are incarcerated for drug offenses for drugs that account for 29x less death per year then legal drugs (alcohol and tobacco). The U.S. has 4.4% of the worlds population and apx. 22% of the worlds prison population. The U.S. prisons are atrocious, in many cases prisoners are held in tortuous conditions. The overcrowding is obscene, the dehumanization and careless disregard for the inmates is deplorable, as well as the complete absence of care from the public outside the prison walls. Apx. 10% of prisoners are held in for-profit private prisons. Slavery in prison is rampant, as slavery was never abolished in the U.S. contrary to popular mythology, it was only ever downsized to allow only for prison slavery (read the 13th amendment). The situation is completely out of control. Meanwhile, the authorities violate the 'laws' perpetually, to the point of twisting any rationalization that we live in a 'criminal justice system' out of reach. There are alternative examples of how things can be different, such as Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, etc. prison systems, and Portugal and others decriminalization of drugs, not to mention the laws that are perpetually broken still on the books that the public can demand that the authorities be held accountable to. The only thing lacking is the awareness and the willingness to do something about it.
Truth!!! And look so good telling it too.
This also got me thinking about Don Winslow's novel "The FORCE"! (If you haven't read it - get it, then you'll understand) . . . . . . .
Excellent.
Thank you TeleSUR, thank you Empire Files, thank you Abby! Journalism is not dead! (yet at least **sigh** )
Shocking.
I just saw the photos of the guy who was eaten by bedbugs. It was so disturbing. The prison employees must be pure evil.
Great JOB Ms. Abby Martin. Yes, we need to have some changes in the prison system, the legal system and political system. I would like to see you do a story on the private prisons that have been growing. #Stradog in Gun Barrel City, Texas with Citizens Action Network and We The People-United.
The US has become so broken in every single way. In my youth it was seen as such a shining light....such a shame..
Thank you, Abby. You're one of the very few real journalists left in this country. Your work is absolutely priceless. 🙏🙏 This was so hard and heart-wrenching to watch. I hope abolishing privatized prisons will be part of the BLM protest demands.
07:30 Um, Saudi Arabia also has the death penalty, as well as atleast 2 Arab countries I can think of.
The majority of countries have the DP. What you're probably thinking of is the fact that USA, Saudi Arabia, and Iran do the most executions.
Billy Aungpe I know, she was saying that the US is the only country in the world that has the DP
I would like to officially recognize Abby Martin as the best reporter anywhere in the world. Eat your heart out MSM, you could have had her on one of your networks but, you sold your souls to the US devil, she would never work for you! Abby, i love all the work you do....keep up the fight!
Great work just one thing 14:51 patriarchy? I don't think so. I don't care if the murderer women was "abused" or was "defending" herself if she escalated to killing she probably belongs in jail. MEN ARE CHARGED 63% MORE FOR THE SAME CRIME. There was actually a bill that was going to make it so the genders are charged equally but it was shot down.
I love how she tells it like it is!!!!!!!!!!!!
17:44 , wait what , how?
the thing is it depends what prison you go to and what state you are in federal vs state but ive heard people say theyd like to go back to prison some have conjugal visits and watch tv have an hour of internet healthcare and no rent. Truly dpends who you are and where you land such as the innmates smoking dope in thier cells
This is a great way to get around the emancipation proclamation, isn't it?
This is too hard to watch! there is a youtube clip compareing the German prison system with America's. The difference is astounding!
Abbey, you rule.
Thank you abby. I mean not only are you intelligent, and spot on, but you're also gorgeous. Thanx again. Keep up the great great work you do. Shame the Empire. How sad though that so many of us move about as if all were ok. It's not!!!!!!!!!!!!
prison is a business.im not sure ,but i think the state gets money for every inmate.
The American Gulag Archipelago
I stopped traveling to the U_ because of the fear ! It struck me one march morning 1999, As I stopped my car to look over a map (was paper maps back then LOL) the radio was on in my car, and a hourly news segment began on the radio. They were saying that an inmate at the Gainsville correction facility was executed at a specific time just a few minutes ago....As I was hearing this, I looked up to see where i'm at according to my map.....I was parked across the street of that Gainesville institution ! It shocked me deeply and I never went to the U_ again after this time and Not going back anytime soon. Nice place to visit but too much risk. I mean they kill people there !
2023 and worse now. No improvements were ever made.
Sickening
The only view that I support out of this video is to point that not all prisoners are criminals. but the criminal ones let them rot
" the horror" Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
Glad to be part of the Commonwealth despite its history that is not good . But today feeling very lucky .
1 in 100, so our prison population is as disparaging as the income inequality... 1-100....
Abby. your reporting is top of the line. And first class. I'm a very big fan. America have always try to tell the World how and when to live. When America have tons of there own problems. I never knew why America's think they are better then the rest of the world. Yes America prison system is a mess. But I have to disagree with you with the prisoners doing a days work. They have free meals& housing and medical needs. So inmates lobby to me isn't wrong. They should work. But they the prisoner's should have better rights& laws behind bar's. I don't like that prisons not providing meals to inmates that the Warden wouldn't eat. Abby you are a beautiful lady. 💜
If somebody suffers, somebody else is getting rich.
That's pretty grim. I mean China and India together account for like 2/3rds of the world population and neither even figure into that prison population graph towards the start of this video. Of course both have the death penalty (which China uses far more than India these days) but one would expect them to have among the largest prison populations in proportion to their overall populations.
and I thought our prisons in Pakistan were bad
There is something very unnatural about the west 😈 thanks Abbey be safe stay alive and be blessed 🐝slavery never ended it was just refined
I need a wifey like Abby Martin.
Me too! And Eddie I know those North Vietnamese were invading the West Coast coming to take away our freedom to drive 2 ton V-8 powered Yank Tanks and eat KFC by the bucket in '67. But I forgive you for not going to Vietnam to fight for 'Our Freedumb'. Us American kids should have taken a que from what was going on 'unreported' in Paris in '68. But what we ended up with by November '68 was the same ol' same ol'
The reason non-whites are such a high percentage of prisoners ...is mostly the same reason that criminals in general are.
Our "Northern European" ancestry population has about the same crime rate as those in Northern Europe.
Quality series! Presented a lot of hard facts, instead of all that pathetic "Wake Up World" BS. More like how a documentary should be.
America has the worst prison system in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!
my "thumb up" clicking made the number of likes to 911 hehe
Ken o keefe was right to burn his us passport...
The US is the freest country? We rank at number 12.
Prison's for profit
YEAH .. ITS THE SAME HERE IN Australia....but we don't get the ridiculous disproportionate sentences that is absolutely the worst thing in the US I . I THINK OF ALL THEM BOYS THAT HAVE LOST THIER FREE LIVES .. MY HEART IS WITH THEM
Justian deception youtube .. Romley Stuart in Australia
it is a terrible problem this prison system i hope to never have to deal with it.but what is the solution? what do we do with pedophile,serial killers rapists and violent unrepentant criminal? do these people deserve to live after they rob someone of their lives?
How the hell can any American politician claim the moral high ground when it does this? Budah Of Birmingham
just to wager a guess, i would guess Abby is not a Christian....but....she shows more Christian empathy and is closer to the teachings of Jesus than any "Christian" I know....
I successfully sued the Warden of a county jail "servicing" a large metropolitan area in Federal Court as a pro-se litigant. The grounds for my civil complaint were that my 8th amendment rights were being violated due to inadequate caloric and nutritional depravation. I had my name legally changed, so the civil action is not under jones. If you want to contact me Abby, consider this message my permission for You-Tube to release my email information to you. The information I can provide to you will do more to change the system than this or any video that I have seen if you were to get your hands dirty and spread the information to the victims of incarceration nation. Sincerely Mr. Jones
wow, tell the truth. where else can you get free labor and get paid? minimum wages is just too high. it sad to see those who is honest human being have to stay behind bar.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for televisied “liberal” media journalist to report anything close
I want to post this to my Facebook page, however I can't. This is because the chart showing the relative prison populations of various countries around the world lacks a China entry. I play to a tough crowd and they will gladly pull me up in the face of this glaring omission. Usually I hear that the US is second only to China in the number of people incarcerated - which is a very bad reflection on the so-called "Land of the Free". It would be nice to see where the two countries stand relative to one another and is a must have for the sake of legitimate unbiased reporting. Please include China on the chart so that I can share this with my friends. Thanks.
P.S. Keep up the great work!
👏💙 bravo 👏❤😅
American prison is the 8th world wonder. I wonder why they still haven't made it commercial attraction like "Bad People Safari". Please don't feed the prisoners.
Here in Australia it's the opposite black Aboriginal get less time ..But it's to do with Thier life expectancy
She missed a major point. One religion stands out as the fastest growing in US prisons. Maybe solitary confinement is the govt's way of curbing conversions.
I have no problem with Islam but a government policy of solitary confinement Is a bit of a stretch
Worshiping the fabrications of a child rapist, All hail muhammad with bacon fat.
Although this has some factual information and is well done, the statistics are presented with too much bias. Example: There are more police patrolling poor neighbourhoods. WHAT?! You mean police patrol an area with higher crime using more resources? That just makes sense from a budgetary stand point to me.
police brutality and the US becoming a police state with the biggest gang of killer-thugs dressed in blue , what with
swat raids at inncorrect locations !, excessive use of deadly force! the usual response at any and all examples of non compliance or resentment to authority enough to result in a summary execution , not unusual or uncommon , all a daily occurance in the largest police state on the planet !!
you can say the training sucks or is excessive or the paramilitary appearence and tactics used in policing just another example of surplus military hardware being deployed in homeland US of A even a police officer of the 80s becoming almost unrecognisable compared to the black uniform assault rifle bearing officer deemed equipped efficently to "protect an serve " .......but in reality what once was the most admired and liberated land on earth has within a short span of a few generations/decades morphed into the most surveilled ,listened to /bugged , incarcerated and controlled examples of totalitarian "democracy ", shocking images , heinous abuse of power and everyday excusing justified death , its nothing new , just we get to see it more these days , thanks to everyone owning a handy camera these days and being able to record these abuses of horrendous violence - i often wonder will one of these brutal killings be the spark to ignite the brooding tinderbox the US has become racial divides and huge disparity between the haves and have nots , lighting the fires of revolution - hard to watch doc - but worthwhile , if even just to educate oneself on how to do ones best to survive a minor traffic violation , or misdemeanour , which depending on how much you react , which side of bed Mr Officer got out of this morning and your skin colour and local .... can result in your journey being detoured into a one way trip to the morgue in a body bag !!
~the only thing i see being protected and served is the power base of corporate USA , its totalitarian reality dished up to the millions of football watching bud swilling overweight pleb , unwashed masses , too busy watching honey boo Bah or dancing with some plastic hollywood icon !! - i fear the end of the empire of the US of exporting democracy is nigh - the next "real "war the US shall wage and let loose industrial death upon its own citizens for a change instead of democratically chosen governments , states and countries , 221 years of warfare / +- 18 years of peace isnt a good record esp for a land so outspoken about freedom , liberty and equality -the recent fabricated wars upon drugs / terrorism contrived ,along with illegal wars and invasions into Irak and afghanista lest we forget every society in hstory has used warfare as one of its most lucrative and influential forces its society could employ - the Mil Ind Com, now so empowered with millionaire oligarchy like political system based purely on and for $$$s rendering any form of democratic process obsolete and impotent
~ i used to laugh at the old east block states names , usually the democratic republic would in reality mean , most spyed on stasi style ,lacking in any freedom where now in reality it is those dreaming the American dream which always was a nightmare to the others whos lives of suffering was the cost they paid for said dream - NSA , TSA - patriot act like legislature , Mil Ind Com, DHS et al serving up the police state those in the highest echelons of power demand - some of my favourite people are US citizens , yet i dispise the system they live under , the over glorification of service and warfare , applause at airports for passing military all symbols we,ve seen before in our not too distant past , in Europe - learn to think for yourself , live and love so also as much as possible and realise the demands [aka laws ] our Govts expect from us , is not held by said governing powers themselves - our world is a very different place mass media and the script writers would have us believe ,......................... if this was too long and did interupt bud swilling , toddlers and tiaras never mind !! its all gonna be alright ! lol
in the absolute numbers, china definitely holds the most prisoners....
+Jin Jude Except that China has 1.6 million prisoners, vs America's 2.2 million, so in absolute numbers you're wrong. Plus China has four times as many people, so as a percentage of population America has far, far more prisoners. How the hell, in an age where everyone has access to Google, does someone make a statement like "China definitely has..." when a two second search reveals the indisputable fact that China definitely does not have anywhere near the amount of prisoners that the U.S. has?