https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1430288042607226882?s=19
I do not understand the two beds. Hey fam, wanna stay the night in a prison cell?
My moms was held for almost 3 years pre trial in a county jail before transferring to a state facility for 2 more years. The county jail had privatized visits 5 bucks/5min after an initial 15min zoom meeting (not face to face). The state prison was even worse. Any true left wing movement will have to include the 4th world- undocumented, homeless, incarcerated and disenfranchised populations. in global capitalism the proletariat must identify and align internationally.
"YOU WILL BE SENT TO THE :gulag: !!!"
"Oh no! What is the gulag like?"
"You have to live in a kinda crappy studio apartment for a few years."
"Oh.... Can I watch movies?"
"Yeah, sure, whatevs."
"I think I'll be okay."
Literally an upgrade from the average person's current living situation.
I'm all for housing prisoners with dignity and human rights, but you don't go giving special privileges to some over others, especially when the crime is so heinous like hers. The prisoners are absolutely right.
Maybe it's to maintain stability? If they piss Añez off too much maybe they're afraid the US will organise another CIA coup or something, or Añez supporters will cause some form of civil unrest? That's the only angle I can see here.
Yeah this kills the pro propaganda for her, libs are all about the "rule of law" and shit like that and it's really hard to paint the current Bolivian government as some type of brutal dictatorship like they commonly do for other nations. She really doesn't have a good support network, one of the few things they can even do right now besides screaming election fraud is to point to how she is being treated. This kills the illusion that it's barbaric.
Optics matter a lot, like most Americans don't genuinely give a shit about other countries unless they actually see something that bothers them. That's why they pushed those soldiers carrying babies so insanely hard, nothing else was sticking. Even that looks to be too little too late. Of course the media apparatus matters a lot for these things, but if they don't have good slop to show the piggies they're uninterested
This. It isn't that it's inherently wrong to treat prisoners well, only that she in NO WAY deserves elevated privilege, particularly when the majority of other inmates presumably did lesser crimes than attempted coups.
If the Bolivian prison system treated everyone like this? Sure. I have no issue. She belongs in jail but we gain nothing by forcing her or any other person to sleep on the cold ground or go days without any entertainment. It's similar to the January 6th thing, and the backlash over the gentle hand the cops gave to the rioters. It's not that we want them beaten, gassed, and shot dead, it's that you SHOULDN'T be doing that to people protesting for a much better reason and give passes to fascist coup attempts.
yep either everyone gets this or she loses it. and i say this as someone that has done time. (but i do think if we have to have any kind of prisons/jails it should be like what she has now)
I mean just shoot her idk. I don’t think public officials who did their crimes in the broad of the day get the same justice process rights the average person should get. The tsar didn’t need a trial, we all knew who he was and what he did
I'm a centrist leftist: I want to abolish prisons and sent all the fascist and fascist collaborators to the wall.
You don't understand. In an act of cruel and unusual punishment the authorities have deprived her of her right to recruit a cleaning lady.
Sometimes it's worth making compromises to keep ex corrupt/illegal/genocidal leaders somewhat content in order to maintain stability. All I'm saying is look at what happened in South Africa after Jacob Zuma was arrested Zuma aligned political factions targeted state infrastructure like refineries and radio towers. And the whole scenario sparked a mass wave of civil unrest, because South Africa's inequality is unsustainable. Wouldn't put it past the CIA to try coup Bolivia again if Añez gets too upset.
Literally nobody gives a shit about Añez. She's not a double-surname princess, she's an arrivist mestiza and now a loser. So everybody hates her, especially the people she wanted to fit in with (the oligarchs with fully european blood).
Btw her parents were poor teachers in a small town of the Amazonas, she's the highest kind of class traitor
Lmao I saw awhile back how her cohorts were claiming she was living in a decrepit living situation and it was causing her to go mad or some shit like that. I don't think the average person is going to feel sympathy for her living Iike this. Another coup crushed, they aren't coming back from this one
If you want to be really pissed, look at how Norway houses Ander Breivik.
in norway its not an exception tho, all prisoners live in quite comfortable conditions since they quite rightly apply rehabilitative justice. I spose you could argue breivik does not deserve rehabilitation but the wall and I tend to agree, but the idealist in me sees this as a good alternative
the purpose of prison is to separate, and if possible rehabilitate someone into society. (not saying he should be integrated back into society) shouldn’t we be advocating for humane shelter for people involuntarily housed by the state?
Can you imagine a more brutal sentence? You have to live out the rest of your natural life—all 50+ more years of it, by Norwegian standards—being provided food, clothing, shelter, and all your material needs. All by the Cultural Marxists you killed all those people for.
That asshole gets to spend every day of his life knowing that his life is perfectly comfortable... because of them... FOREVER!
I was pretty sure she was never going to face any kind of justice for what she had done, so I find it hard to be upset that her prison cell is too comfortable. Hope the other prisoners can get some more comforts.
