Posts Tagged ‘Prisons’

Please tell me this isn’t China’s secret ingredient for its continuing rise to Super Power status (and I thought Bai Ling’s movie Dumplings was fictional). (Oh, btw, it’s still too early to tell how this will affect my Asian fetish). Note: here’s an update on this gruesome story.

The good old American prison system: ugly to the bone (as in that song by George Thorogood, Bad to the Bone).

Yes, it’s happened (and of course you knew it would): Britain bans list names, as in blacklist, whitelist. Could the astronomers’ black hole list be next? Hell, could the very names black and white be banned next?

Imprisonment for profit. The biggest prison population in the world.