Greek Prisons are running out of food

[lovuian]

http://www.protothema.gr/news-in-english/article/?aid=200481

At a time when the entire country is being tested by the economic crisis, some people are quite literally on the verge of destitution and hunger. At a time when the empty state coffers can not support any concept of a welfare state, with "frozen" financing towards education and health, the prison system could not be an exception.

The financing for many prisons has decreased to a minimum for some months now, resulting in hundreds of detainees being malnourished and surviving on the charity of local communities.

The latest example is the prison in Corinth where after the supply stoppage from the nearby military camp, the prisoners are at the mercy of God because, as reported by prison staff, not even one grain of rice has been left in their warehouses. When a few days earlier the commander of the camp announced to the prison management the transportation stoppage, citing lack of food supplies even for the soldiers, he shut down the last source of supply for 84 prisoners. The response of some Corinth citizens was immediate as they took it upon themselves to support the prisoners, since all protests to the Justice ministry were fruitless.


I get the feeling the Greeks are not going to get any help like Haiti did in the Earthquake
It looks like punishment is severe if you go along with the Austere measures verses Iceland who broke away
and rebuilt itself

[morningfog]

1. It sounds like it is time for some mass compassionate release. This is terribly sad.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I think your right. There by the grace of god go us.

[Zalatix]

3. Yet they find the money to keep the prisons running???

[sabrina 1]

5. Now is the time to sell them to the highest bidder. The system is working beautifully for the

world's predatory capitalists. First destroy the social structure then move in when the population is traumatized and PROFIT from their pain.

See Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and you can almost predict these things.

[duhneece]

6. That was the most educational book I've read since Zinn's People's History

Prisoners, whether there justly or unjustly, are among our most vulnerable citizens. Prisons contain many predators, inmates AND corrections officers, so I fear for the inmates.

[sabrina 1]

4. The total failure of Austerity as a policy. What happens when Ayn Rand policies

are put into action. Spain is next, Italy, maybe Portugal, unless the world wakes up and removes these failed, greedy, corrupt Globalists whose only concerns are to protect the Wall Street gamblers from the results of their own corruption.

I have seen reports that people are trying to help the prisoners, with donations and food deliveries. I hope they put up a website, have not checked but I will, to get donations. What a massive tragedy for millions of people these right wing policies have caused. And so far, not even an investigation into caused the " target="_blank">Meltdown and The Men Who Crashed the World