CW death
Two things can be true at the same time. The time in US prisons for most parts isn't chill and "significantly better" does mean little when it still is very low in objective and subjective experience for many.
Of course it depends a bit where you are, if you are imprisoned in some US prisons which are torturous due to heat, their temporary construction, sleeping with 100 people in a too small room, with too few showers, beds, violent excess and being forced to work; or being "forgotten"(read abandoned) in your cells during a slowly rising flood so you die in your cells cause the guards just left; or the regular regularized sexual assault that is common (read your anarchist feminist readings for that).
CW death
Two things can be true at the same time. The time in US prisons for most parts isn't chill and "significantly better" does mean little when it still is very low in objective and subjective experience for many.
Of course it depends a bit where you are, if you are imprisoned in some US prisons which are torturous due to heat, their temporary construction, sleeping with 100 people in a too small room, with too few showers, beds, violent excess and being forced to work; or being "forgotten"(read abandoned) in your cells during a slowly rising flood so you die in your cells cause the guards just left; or the regular regularized sexual assault that is common (read your anarchist feminist readings for that).
Don't forget the rampant spread of diseases like hepatitis, the lack of adequate medical care, and the shitty, inhumane food!