The World' Worst Gulags

North Korea's Camp 22

Hell Holes: Torture, Starvation And Murder The Norm At World’s Worst Gulags -- FOX News

The imprisonment of American Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini in Iran's infamous Evin prison has sparked an international outcry and shined a spotlight on one of the world's cruelest gulags.

But Evin is just one of many prisons where conditions exist that would shock medieval jailers, and where the level of human misery is incalculable. Prisoners brazenly carrying guns and machetes, guards rousting inmates in the night for mock executions and captives forced to stand in water up to their noses for 24 hours when they’re not being worked literally to death are common at the world's most draconian dungeons. Most operate in rogue nations, beyond the influence of human rights organizations or appeals from Western nations. The few who have escaped or been freed carry the scars from their imprisonment for the rest of their lives.

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My Comment: These places make Guantanamo look like Club Med in comparison.

Secret U.S. Prisons In Afghanistan?

Afghans Detail Detention in ‘Black Jail’ at U.S. Base -- New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base.

The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former detainees said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions.

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My Comment: Goodbye to the old boss. Hello to the new boss. And nothing changes.

When President Bush was in power, critics were harsh and public in their condemnation of such actions. But today .... with a few exceptions .... nothing but silence. It makes you wonder on where they are now?

UN: Poor Prisons Creating Health, Social Time-Bomb

From Yahoo News/Reuters:

VIENNA (Reuters) - HIV spread through drug abuse is rampant in overcrowded prisons across the world, posing a health risk to society when infected inmates are released, the head of the U.N. drugs and crimes agency said on Thursday.

If prisons are a reflection of society as a whole "we are seeing a disaster around the world," Antonio Maria Costa said, highlighting substandard prisons as one of the major concerns of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

There are around 30 million people under detention at any given time, the UNODC said, and the spread of HIV through drug abuse in prisons is a severe problem.

Costa warned of a time-bomb when large numbers of infected inmates are released.

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