These kind of “jokes” pop up occasionally in Denmark but they are not that common. Prison conditions here are better than in the US and fewer go to prison, leading to less mythology forming around the violence happening there. US prisons are understood by the general public to be much more brutal and this understanding is then used to fuel the favourite European passtime of feeling superior to Burgerland despite being it’s vassal.
The thing you hear about prisons all the time is that they are not brutal enough, especially to racialised minorities. Apparently being locked in a room with cable tv “doesn’t feel like a punishment” to non-whites.
US prisons are understood by the general public to be much more brutal
I’m always amused whenever I watch a movie or show and it depicts Russian prisons as being gulags deep in the isolated snowy mountains, run by ex-KGB warlord gangsters, and the prison wardens force you to fight other prisoners to the death for punishment.
It may or may not be the truth, but all I know is that I live in the freedom republic of the US and people with a big smile on their face joke about you getting raped in prison, then you turn on the news and see news about mass graves in the most racist states that go uninvestigated, and people get locked up in solitary if the wardens are in a bad mood after feeding you rotten food and raping you if you’re a woman.
These kind of “jokes” pop up occasionally in Denmark but they are not that common. Prison conditions here are better than in the US and fewer go to prison, leading to less mythology forming around the violence happening there. US prisons are understood by the general public to be much more brutal and this understanding is then used to fuel the favourite European passtime of feeling superior to Burgerland despite being it’s vassal.
The thing you hear about prisons all the time is that they are not brutal enough, especially to racialised minorities. Apparently being locked in a room with cable tv “doesn’t feel like a punishment” to non-whites.
I’m always amused whenever I watch a movie or show and it depicts Russian prisons as being gulags deep in the isolated snowy mountains, run by ex-KGB warlord gangsters, and the prison wardens force you to fight other prisoners to the death for punishment.
It may or may not be the truth, but all I know is that I live in the freedom republic of the US and people with a big smile on their face joke about you getting raped in prison, then you turn on the news and see news about mass graves in the most racist states that go uninvestigated, and people get locked up in solitary if the wardens are in a bad mood after feeding you rotten food and raping you if you’re a woman.