It has been less than a month since Matthew Todd Miller was sentenced to 6 years of hard labor in a North Korean prison. The 24-year-old joins two other Americans detained there; Jeffry Fowle and Kenneth Bae both of whom were arrested for proselytizing Christianity. Miller’s crimes, however, seem less conclusive. He was convicted inContinue reading “A Deliberate Crime”
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Pensioners in Prison: Why are Japan’s geriatrics facing their twilight years behind bars?
As someone whose experience of prisons is limited to a yearlong obsession with “Prison Break”, my knowledge of real prison life is admittedly a little lacking. That said, I think you would forgive me for stereotyping prisoners as individuals who on the whole, have their own set of teeth and still have to pay fullContinue reading “Pensioners in Prison: Why are Japan’s geriatrics facing their twilight years behind bars?”