From Mass Imprisonment to Abolition (USP): Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

Another recent development is the (secretive) establishment of so-called Communication Management Units (CMU) within larger prison facilities. CMUs are a type of self-contained group within a federal prison in the USA that severely restricts, manages and monitors all outside communication (telephone, mail, visitation) of inmates in the unit - have existed since 2006 in the U.S.A.. - Civil liberty and human rights groups immediately questioned the constitutionality and stated that the provisions were so broad that they could be applied to non-terrorists, witnesses and detainees. The bureau appeared to abandon the program, but on December 11, 2006, a Communication Management Unit (CMU) was quietly implemented at Indiana's Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute. "From April to June 2010, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) opened up a period for public comment around the establishment of two Communications Management Units” with several civil rights groups and advocates “coming together to urge the federal Bureau of Prisons to close the experimental prison units.” It is unclear who authorized the program; it was either the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, FBOP Director Harley Lappin or Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General. It is mainly thanks to investigative journalist Will Potter that part of the public has become aware of these institutions.

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.