Why are political prisoners in prison?
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We are talking about countries with oppressive regimes who imprison their political opponents.\n\nVaclav Havel was jailed as a dissident in the Czrch Republic and emerged from jail to become his country's president. As did Nelson Mandela in South Africa. They both became cause celebres and rallying points for the opposition in that country.\n\nMandela spoke out about Apartheid, Havel about Stalinism, the governments did not want them to be free to organise opposition to the government, and imprisoned them instead.\n\nFind out about Amnesty Internatioinal and its work in support of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.\n\nPerhaps the most important case in the world at the moment is Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma) who has been under house arrest for some years. The eyes of the world are on her, as they were on Nelson Mandela when he was in jail.\n\nShe has led pro-democracy opposition forces since 1988 in opposition to the military regime in Myanmar.
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Well obviously the previous answerers dont know the history of incarceration.\nObviously it was beneficial to the prison system to segregate women and children from the men because they both have different needs and necessities in life. \nAfter terrible conditions were discovered and the prison system underwent a comple overhaul and renovation, prison administrators found that in order to improve the quality of life in prison, then each "type" of person must have a certain attention given to them in order to fulfill those needs. \nThe bottom line is that it has been extremely beneficial in decreasing violence and improving the quality of life of the inmates. \nI took a Corrections course and learned the history but I dont have my notes in front of me otherwise I would refer to names, specific time periods, etc...
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Most prison system have time reduction for good behavior.  This gives an incentive for inmates to be good and saves the state money on keeping the inmate for the full term.
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Yes, there is so much lobbying for human rights in this country that people who need to be locked up are set free, or given very light sentences.  Longer/more severe sentences would not only keep them off the streets longer, but they would make people more afraid of commiting the crime.  This is why the death penalty works, it scares people.
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I know, but you at least have to trick the other prisoners into thinking if they cooperate you'll let them go... on the other hand, they probably know if you let them go it'll get out that they told everything... on the other hand, these people are normally lied to so the information you'll get is crap...\n\nSo why bother?  The only useful prisoner is one that actually has inside information, and who wants to get rid of one of those?
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Prisoners buy pouch tobacco and papers when they get their allowances for work they do in prison. Depending where they work within the system denotes their wages...they could be working on farms or gardens or maybe in the kitchen etc  for this they recieve their wages and then when they have enough credits they can buy from the 'canteen' where the cost of tobacco etc is deducted. \nPrisoners aren't allowed to have 'actual' money in prison, it is all held as credits.
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Prisons are money making machines for the owners!  The states pay private prison managers a whole bunch of money.   Judges even own interests in restitution centers. What better way to keep 100% occupancy of their business. Isn't that a huge conflict of interest???\n\nIt is time for a huge revamp of our worthless prison system. \n\nThe basic premise of prison is to restrict freedom.  Currently they are nothing more than a holding tank.\n\nIf the inmate will be released at some point in their life it is better for society to get them headed towards managing freedom than a sudden release from a high security institution.  That is a recipe for failure. \n\nEmpowering an inmate through earning increased freedom woujld help reinforce the benefit of making postive choices. \n\nThere are many types of freedom restrictions:\n\nDeath row \nMaximum security - with no parole\n\nEventual Freedom:\n\nMaximum security - with parole\nSolitary confinement\nMinimum security\nJail\n(Convert abandoned military bases for low risk felons, youthful offenders, non violent crimes, rather than put them in with hardened criminals)\nWork release centers\nRestitution centers (how many judges invest in these and sentence people to them to keep them full?)\nForest camps\nRehab center\nHouse arrest\nTreatment centers\n\nMore freedom:\n\nAnkle bracelet monitoring\nParole from prison where they must meet with their parole officer\nProbation from jail where they must meet with their probation officer\n3rd Party Custodian\nRandom drug testing\nLose drivers license\nBreathalyzer installed on vehicle\n\nThe inmate enters prison at the highest level of freedom restriction the crime designates, determined by the type of crime.  \n\nBased on a set of personal needs and goals, the inmate can complete certain sets of requirements and move towards more freedom in graduated steps.  If they fight or break rules, they are sent back to the highest level of freedom restriction to start over. \n\nSome goals should be obtaining a GED, increasing SAT scores, entering college, higher education, work skills, community work within a prison (teaching someone to read, tutoring another inmate to get their GED), learning and applying anger management techniques, learning about domestic violence, revealing their early childhood trauma, learning to cry, feel human emotions.
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a few things...  Prisoners in a camp aren't under "courtesy", they are convicted felons/criminals, being held there to keep them away from society... The international forces who there received an order to leave the area because they were at risk of being attacked by the Palestinian militants there. Israel new this, and couldn't let those prisoners break free. Using the work 'kidnap' is about as accurate as saying that a bounty hunter who captures escaped felons is a 'kidnapper'. The main prisoner wasn't just 'accused' - he was convicted as well. As for your main question on the effects of this story? It won't increase the conflict, but it will be fuel for the Politicians on both sides to spin whichever way they want...
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http://prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/2004-March/008873.html
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Votes for prisoners.  Seems pretty dumb to me but it keeps getting suggested in Europe.
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Prisons should be terrible places where nobody wants to go but you better remember that most of the people who go in there get out at some point. \nThat is why you don't want to shamelessly brutalize them, and you want to provide them with the opportunity to correct and better themselves.  That way maybe there is a chance they might get out and go straight, not be a worse criminal than they were when they went in.
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They are usually retained by the use of handcuffs and iron chains...depending on the situation as to why they are being imprisoned. Officers have to be careful as to how they handle the prisoner due to liability.
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The same reason they are spared from jail time when they commit a crime. Money talks........................
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i doubt it. but if i gotta fo to prison, id wanna go there.\nif politics is no longer lucrative, the crooks wont want the positions.
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Prisons used for punishment are a relatively new phenomenon, dating back less than 150 years. Mass incarceration in the U.S. is an even newer phenomenon dating back less than 30 years. When societies evolve, they change their means of social control. Not so long ago, it became unacceptable for society to put its citizens in stocks, or publicly dunk them in water, brand them or to burn them alive. Confinement as a form of punishment was an evolved step, and now it is time to move on to more evolved methods of dealing with social problems before we normalize not only incarceration but obscenely high levels of incarceration. \n\nOne of Alabama's largest farming operations is run by the state prison system - July 26, 2003 - Inmates raise crops and catfish and tend livestock, generating about $2 million in revenue last year for running prisons and paying salaries. The inmates are paid 25 cents an hour. \n\nAmerican's Current Assessment of Crime and Punishment - September 22, 2002 - This site contains some very good graphs about American's current assessment of crime and punishment.  The results of the survey are surprising. \n\nACLU POLL - September 22, 2002 - New Poll Shows Surprisingly Forgiving Attitude Toward Crime and Punishment: Most Americans Don't Want to Throw Away the Key. \n\nBad Investment - Take it from a businessman: The War on Drugs is just money down the drain. Governor Gary Johnson: "Locking up more and more people ... whose real problem is that they are addicted to drugs, is simply a waste of money." \n\nBreeding Violence - Locking people up is supposed to make our streets safer, but it may be doing the opposite. \n\nCALFORNIA DOC RESTITUTION 15 DAY RE-NOTICE - March 7, 2003 - Here is a review of the files received from the CA DOC on this issue. \n\nCHILDREN OF PRISONERS IN THE USA - May 5, 2003 - This is The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and it operates the Resource Center in collaboration with NIC and with CWLA's partners, the American Correctional Association (ACA) and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD).  On this site they relate that Nationwide, more than 2 million children have a parent incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails. Many more have experienced a parent's incarceration at some point in their lives. Since 1991, the number of children with parents in prison has increased by more than 50%. Most of these children have an incarcerated father, but a growing number-currently 8%-have incarcerated mothers. \n\nThe Corrections Connection News Center -  August 2002 - Reflections on the Crime Decline: \nLessons for the Future? \n\nCorrectional Health Care Consultants - CHCC is the one to contact for all health care and correctional related services. From providing health care to inmates, to introducing products and services to the corrections market, CHCC gets the job done for you. \nCriminal Justice Links - Criminal Justice Information - Major Agencies \n\nCriminal Injustice: Mainstreaming Torture - August 18, 2002 - On Sunday, August 18, 2002, Brian Steels <bsteels@iinet.net.au> wrote:  The following article shows where we are at with punitive regimes ... indeed, it is time to not only abolish prison as we know it, but to put a stop to the production of such weapons of personal harm.  As violence begets violence, we can only work towards peaceful resolutions and repair damage done. There has to be public awareness of such technologies that are \nbrutal in extreme. \n\nBrian Steels \nPerth, Western Australia\nDebt to Society - Click on a state to see how much its incarceration rate has grown, how its spending on prisons and higher education has changed, what proportion of its prisoners are drug offenders, and the racial disparity between its general and prison populations. \nEasterling Prison - Clio, Alabama \n\nSubheadings: \n- No Smoking Program \n- Scare Program \n- Warden's photo\nEDUCATE YOURSELF ON EXECUTIONS \nHUMAN
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My opinion is that if people r put in prison, some may just come of with an even worse attitude than they had when they went in. Look at recidivism rates.......
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Some prisions have both systems, and only inmates that are low risk get to spend time with their family. Obviously the reason they seperate eachother is because the are in prision and are meant to be punished, plus it allows them to not be able to exchange items without a guard looking it over. I am sure there is not prision with high risk people the allow them to see their visitors unprotected.