December 1999 Cover
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Russian officials have announced plans to release 300,000 prisoners over the next 18 months in an effort to relieve prison overcrowding. Overcrowding in
Russian prisons has led to the rapid spread of disease such as tuberculosis (TB). In announcing the decision, Justice Minister Pavel Krasheninnikov said, "When we
sentence criminals to imprisonment, we should not be sentencing them to be infected with AIDS, TB, or other deadly diseases."
[The United States, with similarly over-crowded, diseased prisons continues to incarcerate evermore citizens with ever-lengthening sentences; the threat of
prison-acquired disease is seen, evidently, as part of the "War on Crime."]
Editor's Note: from Nando Times Online
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