Video: Tortured & Enslaved: Enter the World’s Biggest Prison

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fedor Dostoevskii

The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America’s prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and the roots of mass incarceration.