U.S. Teacher: I Did 7 Months Of Forced Labor In A Chinese Jail

[JackRiddler]

17. Does anyone doubt this comment on the story?

that's just like my experience in the Las Vegas jail back in '97 minus the forced labor. I only spent 14 hours there but I did see an inmate from my cell murdered by guards during that time. He was dragged out by his hair and kicked to death by at least 5 guards right in front of the (plexiglass) cell door, then dragged to another cell where we never saw him again. Later, I saw a blurb in the local paper's police blotter that an inmate had "stopped breathing on his way to jail" - newspaper jargon for an inmate being murdered by guards apparently. I saw that blurb in the police blotter several more times while living in Vegas over the next several months. I also saw it in after I moved to Sacramento Ca. Now I know the truth behind those innocuous little words.

Since the advent of widespread smart phones there has been an astonishing wave of police brutality videos. Where's NPR's sympathetic coverage condemning the U.S. police? Where's NPR inside U.S. prisons, referring to prisoners by their outside professions rather than as convicted criminals?