on a kaiju server, we were discussing the possibility of kong having a gun in GvK then that panel from the hellboy comics was brought up and just had to draw this 😂
This meme… This gd meme xD
Lawsuit reveals the deadly, out-of-control free-for-all inside Red State America’s for-profit prisons
The Management & Training Corporation operates two federal prisons
and 20 more state/local prisons around America; previously, it has been
censured by Arizona for its role in deadly prison riots;
now, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center are suing the state of
Mississippi over the violence, neglect, and rampant human rights abuses
at Management & Training’s East Mississippi Correctional Facility,
near Meridian in Lauderdale County.
The trial has heard from a seemingly endless queue of shackled men,
brought from the prison to testify about the conditions under Management
& Training Corporation’s policies: they describe a prison where the
prisoners routinely break out of their cells to visit terrible violence
on other prisoners, without any intervention from guards; where guards
turned and ran when the shackled, helpless man they were dragging to his
cell was set upon by an armed gang; where guards are paid less than
$12/hour and received three weeks’ training; where facilities devoted to
people with mental illness have virtually no trained psychiatric staff;
where prisoners whose bones have been broken during assaults are thrown
in their cells for days before they receive any medical attention.
The Mississippi prison system is a model of red state austerity, where
the for-profit contractors like Management & Training receive just
$9500/year ($26/day) per prisoner – compared with $73,000/year per
prisoner spent in New York.
To turn a profit under those conditions, Management & Training badly
understaffs its prisons, creating a workplace few will tolerate – as a
result, even the most incompetent and sadistic employees get to keep
their jobs. That’s why Frank Shaw was made warden of the East
Mississippi Correctional Facility, even after overseeing the
catastrophic riots in Management & Training’s Arizona facilities.
Shaw told the court he hadn’t heard of any of the abuses that the
prisoners testified about. He also revealed that he is given bonuses
when he contains costs, but faces no sanctions if prisoners are injured
or killed on his watch. Four prisoners died in Shaw’s facility in the
first quarter of this year.
Meanwhile, prisoners who testify about being assaulted are being moved
into cells adjacent to their attackers by Management & Training,
which is seemingly intent to have them join the ranks of the dead as a
message to any other prisoner who might speak out.
Donald Trump has vowed to increase the use of for-profit private prisons in the federal system.
On this day, 9 June 1944, German socialist and member of the anti-fascist resistance Johanna Kirchner was beheaded by the Nazis in Berlin. After Hitler came to power, she went underground and later moved to France. In 1942 she was arrested by the collaborationist Vichy regime and handed to the Gestapo. She was sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour. However her case was brought back to court, where she was sentenced to death for “Marxist high-treason propaganda”. On the day of her execution she wrote to her children: “Don’t cry for me. I believe in a better future for you.” https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1141997085985440/?type=3
