Against Prisons: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

In poor countries the same is true, but on a different scale. This is due to insufficient economic resources and the state‘s inability or unwillingness to secure even minimum standards of prison conditions. Because of the low salaries of prison employees, corruption is endemic. As a prisoner in a poor country, you will have a high likelihood of suffering from infectious diseases, from the lack of hygiene, from inadequate medical and psychological assistance, from unhealthy diets, and - most importantly - from lack of respect by undertrained and often incompetent, but bossy guards and semi-professionals. There are not many published reports detailling the psison conditions in poor countries. As a matter of fact, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has visited the prisons of many poorer countries, but only few of them has agreed to the publication of the reports. What follows are a few excerpts from published reports, one each for an Asian country (ranked 142 on Pasquali's list)), a Latin American country (ranked 106) and an African country (ranked 55):