The
neoliberal government attempts to steal the "glory" of the
US police state through unprecedented measures in the next bill
After
dissolving labor rights and a first attempt to criminalize protests,
the Greek government is preparing new, unprecedented measures to
strengthen the police state, through the so-called prisons of "type
C".
Speaking on
the radio station "In Red," Ioanna Drosou, member of the
"Initiative for Prisoners' Rights", revealed the main
points of the bill concerning the prisons of "type C".
The first
thing someone should notice, is that no change is predicted on the
buildings of the new prisons. One would expect that new prisons of
"special type", should satisfy special standards. However,
the only thing that will change in existing prisons, or in sectors of
existing prisons, is their name as prisons of "type C".
Inmates planned to be jailed in those prisons, will be divided into two categories. In
the first category belong those who are convicted for participating
in criminal organizations, or, for high treason, and will be kept
in those prisons for ten consecutive years and reviewed whether to
continue their detention every two years! The decision will be
taken by only one person, the public prosecutor of Appeals, while
only the Minister of Justice will have the right to decide whether an
inmate should be transferred to prisons of "type C", or
not. The prisoner will have the right to appeal only once within ten
days, which is essentially only a typical matter.
The second
category will include prisoners convicted for 10 years or more,
considered dangerous for the security of the prison, or national
security, or public order. In those prisons, inmates will be held
for four consecutive years and then examined every two years.
Whoever
is guided in this jail will not have the right for leave, will not
have the beneficial calculation for offering job and receive
education, it is not entitled to offer job or participate in
educational programs, will have very strict restrictions on
communication, phones-visits, will not have the right for
free-living, will not have the right to be released earlier, and in
fact, will not be entitled to anything.
From a
first look, this bill seems to be a worldwide novelty. There are such
prisons abroad, but they are disciplinary prisons for six months and
not for four or ten years. Six months is the maximum time penalty in
case of any crime inside prison. Beyond this, the inmate returns to a
regular prison.
It is quite
known that the Greek prisons suffer from inhuman detention
conditions. It is characteristic that Greece has the most lifers in
Europe, around 1200, while in other countries there are 100-200.
Currently there are about 13,000 inmates and the capacity of prisons
is for 9,500, counting only inmates who are in prison, not those who
are in the holding cells, nearly 3,500, waiting to be led to jail.
Under these circumstances, the only way for prisoners to assert their
rights is to protest, and it is obvious that the bill for prisons of
"type C", aims to establish complete suppression inside
those prisons under inhuman conditions.
Source:
It is
obvious that the government tries to establish a cruel suppression
state because the Greek experiment must be completed by any means.
Protests are targeted through an attempt for further criminalization
which will broaden the definition field of the person who is
dangerous for the "national security, or, public order".
Combining all these with the willing of the Greek police to purchase
unmanned aerial vehicles, known as
"Drones"(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/06/drones-advanced-big-brother-arrives-in.html),
capable for any type of interception, one can easily predict the dark
future ahead of us.
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