New videos filmed by Cuban prisoners expose harsh living conditions
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[release]Inmates in Cuba's biggest and worst prison, Combinado del Este, made 10 hidden-camera videos showing filthy, broken toilets, grimy walls, leaking sewage and food described as worse than "animal feed," according to The Miami Herald. The videos were smuggled out of Havana by dissident journalist Dania Virgen García, who writes the blog "Cuba por Dentro" — Inside Cuba — who said they were shot in late January with a digital camera smuggled into the prison "so that everyone can see Cuba’s reality."
"The conditions here at Combinado del Este are subhuman, and the food is unfit for human consumption," says Douglas Moore, an inmate in one of the videos who says he is an American convicted of a drug offense, according to CNN. Because he is an American, he says in the video, "I am singled out for abuse. I cannot count all the times that I have been chained by my hands and legs and beaten mercilessly, then robbed of my meager possessions by the guardia frontera here at Combinado del Este."
Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cru, a human rights activist who spent nearly three years in Combinado del Este, said it is one of the worst in Latin America because Cuba does not allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to inspect its prisons, reported UPI.
"Show this video to the international community, how this miserable dictatorship commits cruelties against humanity," says the videos' narrator, a citizen of India serving a 30-year sentence in the Havana prison, according to The Bellingham Herald.
But photos from a media tour of the prison in 2004 depicted a far different picture, with inmates being taught computer skills and exercising on a lawn, reported CNN.
According to The Miami Herald, the videos — two of which have made it to YouTube and show several inmates complaining about the prison conditions — appeared to be the first ever smuggled out of Cuba’s more than 200 prisons.[/release]
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Damn. That's really shitty.
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What the fuck?
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[QUOTE=Deaver;35209023]And yet, Guantanamo Bay Detention Center still stands.[/QUOTE]
This is a prison owned by the Cuban Government. What in the world does that anything to do with Guantanamo?
[QUOTE=N-12_Aden;35209048]This is a prison owned by the Cuban Government. What in the world does that anything to do with Guantanamo?[/QUOTE]
He is merely pointing out that you can't criticise another countries prisons when your own are pretty shitty.
EDIT: Also it is only video footage from one prison so you cannot make sweeping assumptions about all Cuban prisons based on it. If the only US prison you saw was Guantanamo it would be equally unfair to assume all US prisons are like that.
[QUOTE=Mythman;35209071]He is merely pointing out that you can't criticise another countries prisons when your own are pretty shitty.[/QUOTE]
It's a communist country that has had a trade embargo on it for decades by one of the worlds largest economic super powers. What do you honestly expect?
[QUOTE=Mythman;35209071]He is merely pointing out that you can't criticise another countries prisons when your own are pretty shitty.[/QUOTE]
...Why not?
I don't see anywhere that says "U.S. prisons are not shitty." This just points out the Cuban prisons are terrible.
i hate the fact that prisons like this definitely need renovating to fulfill the basic human rights that even prisoners are entitled to, but the instant you say the words "prisoner rights" people are all against you and stuff.
The reality to this that when the Cuban government sees these pictures they're most likely going to kill them for this...
no cuba is great a documentary told me
Wanna [b]NOT[/b] be there?
Dont do a crime/
[QUOTE=DarkCisco;35209797]Wanna [b]NOT[/b] be there?
Dont do a crime/[/QUOTE]
Chances are serving their time in that shithole will most likely bring them back there.
[QUOTE=DarkCisco;35209797]Wanna [b]NOT[/b] be there?
Dont do a crime/[/QUOTE]
With that reasoning, why renovate Hospitals? You know people that get involved into accidents could have just been careful?
I'm somehow not surprised really.
Should I even bother watching the video? how bad IS it?
[QUOTE=Mythman;35209071]He is merely pointing out that you can't criticise another countries prisons when your own are pretty shitty.
EDIT: Also it is only video footage from one prison so you cannot make sweeping assumptions about all Cuban prisons based on it. If the only US prison you saw was Guantanamo it would be equally unfair to assume all US prisons are like that.[/QUOTE]
Are you his alt account or something? :v: you sound like him
Nothing or anyone said anyone about the US prisons so he shouldn't have even brought it up.
Not surprised at all.
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