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Modern incarceration, sometimes called New Age slavery, is far worse than antebellum slavery when we compare the average American prisoner to the average antebellum slave. The average slave was not directly abused by his or her owners, other than the intrinsic injustice of slavery and the pervasive limitation of opportunities. A significant minority of slaves gave rise to the true horror stories of slavery. Almost all prisoners face loneliness, boredom and the threat of violence on a daily basis in the sick prison environment, punctuated of course by modern horrors. Perhaps the greatest disadvantage prisoners face is the absence of the opposite sex, which frustrates and encourages violence and deviancy. Antebellum slaves were encouraged to have sex from an early age and their owners frequently played the role of matchmaker. All prisoners are completely removed from their friends, families, spouses, communities and familiar surroundings and thrust into a terrible moral e...

The El Rodeo prison in Venezuela was built to handle 750 prisoners. At the time of the 2011 riot there, it held 3,500 in filthy conditions. Venezuela's correctional system as a whole contains almost four (4) times the number of inmates it was designed to incarcerate. Overcrowding always causes problems, whether it takes place in prison or in a laboratory testing white rats. Overcrowding reduces the level of control wardens have over conditions, increases tension, brings about an exponential increase in violations of personal space and promotes gang activity and violence. Divided into Unit One and Unit Two, El Rodeo Prison holds some dangerous criminals. But over half of the Venezuelan prison population is being held before trial, because of the slow Venezuelan judicial system. In the case of the Venezuelan correctional system, officials often let gangs run the prison while the guards mainly keep people from escaping. This uncaring procedure has through the years given rise to mul...