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 === Large Run-Down Prisons (LRDP) ===
-Supermax and torture sites are not the whole picture. There are also "normal prisons", minimum security prisons, halfway houses, and even prisons, "where inmates are treated as people", sometimes referred to as resort prisons. A famous example is Bastøy prison in Norway (and another one may be the APAC prisons in Brazil). Imagine you are a prisoner convicted of murdering a loved one,] you are sentenced and sent to a prison that resides on an island, without being handcuffed, without cameras or weapons, with wooden cottages instead of jail cells, and dinner ranging from chicken to salmon prepared by inmates themselves. At first glance that may seem like a criminal’s distant fantasy, but in Oslo, Bastøy prison—which sits on an island 80 kilometres from Norway—offers a new perspective on how to treat criminals.
+Supermax and torture sites are not the whole picture. There are also "normal prisons", minimum security prisons, halfway houses, and even prisons, "where inmates are treated as people", sometimes referred to as resort prisons. A famous example is Bastøy prison in Norway (and another one may be the APAC prisons in Brazil). Imagine you are a prisoner convicted of murdering a loved one,] you are sentenced and sent to a prison that resides on an island, without being handcuffed, without cameras or weapons, with wooden cottages instead of jail cells, and dinner ranging from chicken to salmon prepared by inmates themselves. At first glance that may seem like a criminal’s distant fantasy, but in Oslo, Bastøy prison—which sits on an island 80 kilometres from the capital —offers a new perspective on how to treat criminals.
 [[Datei:Norway Bastøy Prisoner.jpg|500px|right| Resort Prison]]
-Both the supermax and the super-resort prisons are extremes. Normal facilities are in-between them. But what is a normal prison nowadays? For most people in the owrld - and for most of the 11 million incarcerated people today - the most probably prison to be is what one may call a large run-down prison (LRDP):
+Both the supermax and the super-resort prisons are the extreme ends of the carceral continuum.
+What lies in-between those extremes?
+In countries with a marked slaveholder past, the "normal" prisons are likely to be rough. In ex-colonial countries with little development, colonial institutions are likely to be still in use, but in a rundown version because of lack of funds and care. For many and maybe most of the 10 million plus prisoners in today's world, a likely fate is being incarcerated in what might be called one of those "large run-down prisons. We can call them LRDPs for matters of convenience. A vivid description of an LRDP from Manila would probably apply to many other of its kind in other parts of the world:
 [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/21/asia/philippines-overcrowded-jail-quezon-city/index.html Quezon City Jail, Manila, Philippines (2016)]: "Every available space is crammed with yellow T-shirted humanity. The men here -- and almost 60% are in for drug offenses -- spend the days sitting, squatting and standing in the unrelenting, suffocating Manila heat. Their numbers are climbing relentlessly. At the beginning of the year, a little under 3,600 were incarcerated. In the seven weeks since Duterte took office and charged his No. 1 cop, Ronald Dela Rosa, with cleaning up the country, that number has risen to 4,053. The Quezon City Jail was built in 1953, originally to house 800 people, according to the country's Bureau of Jail Management and Penology standards. The United Nations says it should house no more than 278. There are only 20 guards assigned to the mass of incarcerated men, some of whom have been living behind these walls for years without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. Dela Rosa earlier told CNN that the criminals in the jails and prisons would just have to squeeze in, gesturing by pulling in his shoulders and arms. Inmates are woken at 5 a.m. before undergoing a head count -- no easy task when you have 4,000-plus men crammed into crumbling, ramshackle cells.
+'''From LRDP to LMRDPs.'''
 Some LRDPs add some intentional cruelty turning them into what one may call Large Malignant Run-Down Prisons (LMRDP). They normally escape the attention of the general public and of academics, since they are not located in the US or Western Europe. An example is Black Beach prison in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, where both arbitrary and systematic torture is common. Prisoners are often savagely beaten, then denied medical attention. They're provided with laughable excuses for meals; some inmates starve to death. Disease spreads easily because prisoners are not given the opportunity to properly clean themselves. Prisoners are kept inside of their cells, shackles and all, for most of the day, another form of psychological and physical torture. A number of the prisoners kept at Black Beach were members of a 2004 failed coup d'état attempt against the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, former Governor of Black Beach.