The two drove to Route 32 and did not go straight to the road, but stopped the car and prepared a delicious lunch before hitting the road. The two of them didn't eat breakfast when they got up this morning, so why should they be in such a hurry to play?

It's also nice to have a barbecue in the wilderness next to this highway.

The two found an empty sand area on the side of the road, and there was a small forest next to it, they parked the car, set up a portable oven, and Xiao Peng took out some charcoal from the ring to prepare to roast.

Yang Meng is no longer surprised by Xiao Peng's Aemon-like behavior. Especially after Xiao Peng threw him a few bottles of Tsingtao beer, he didn't plan to ask at all, just eat and drink what he had!

"Hey, this is beef, do you want to roast it and eat it?" Xiao Peng watched Yang Meng walk out with the meat and stopped Yang Meng: "Roast mutton, roast pork!

"And what about pork?" Yang Meng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he took out the pork and mutton from the refrigerator, cut them and marinated them.

"Xiao Peng, what to do with this beef?" Xiao Peng asked.

"Cut it into a steak and grill it whole, marinate it together first!" Xiao Peng said.

"Okay!"

The advantage of eating barbecue is that it saves trouble and speed, and in a short time, the two of them can also grill anything: grilled corn, grilled sausages, grilled chicken wings。。。。。。 How can this eat barbecue without drinking two cups? The two of them don't care if they drive or not, and the beer barbecue is eaten: let's play comfortably first.

"What sound?" Xiao Peng suddenly pricked up his ears: "Why do I seem to hear neat footsteps?"

Yang Meng put down the beer in his hand after hearing this: "I seem to have heard footsteps too." And the sound of chains?"

The two of them heard the sound of neat and powerful footsteps, looked around, and there was no one around, and the two looked at each other.

"Brother Peng, isn't this the legendary Yin Soldier crossing the border?" Yang Meng was a little confused.

Xiao Peng was also dumbfounded: "Big brother, the Yin soldiers should be crossing at night, isn't it that the two of us are drinking and hallucinating?"

"Made, who is pretending to be a ghost here?" Yang Meng stopped roasting, and the two looked left and right together, which was indeed quite amazing.

A few minutes later, the two had an answer, and from the other side of the grove behind them, a figure appeared. But the scene in front of them made the two even more confused, only to see thirty women divided into two teams, all with shackles on their feet, connected together by chains, fifteen people in a team, walking in a very peculiar way, first one step with the right foot, then the left foot and the right foot level, then the right foot, and so step by step forward. The strange footsteps and chains they heard were all from them. On closer inspection, the women were all dressed in prison uniforms, with reflective vests for safety on the outside, and each carrying a tool similar to a rake and a pickaxe for hoeing the ground. Several armed policemen were maintaining formation.

", is this going to be shot en masse?" Yang Meng was stunned: "Dude, don't they all say that foreigners pay attention to human rights?

Xiao Peng was also dumbfounded, what is the situation? This is the prisoner in chains, born hundreds of years ago, a product of the slavery period, but because it was too cruel and there were abnormal punishments, it had long been abolished. Why do you see it again here?

Although these female prisoners were chained, they were in good spirits, and when they saw Xiao Peng and the others, they whistled at them. Yang Meng said happily on the side: "Hey, do you see, there are more people who whistle at me than at you." ”

Xiao Peng looked at Yang Meng speechlessly, Yang Meng's image of a bald head and small eyes and a big man is indeed in line with the aesthetics of crooked nuts for Chinese. Especially the single eyelid has simply become a representative of the Chinese in the eyes of crooked nuts. The image of a little fresh meat like Xiao Peng with thick eyebrows and big eyes is not the kind of popular 。。。。。。

"Hey, Xiao, why are you here?" Xiao Peng was still aggrieved there, but he heard someone greet him: "Hey, Curt? This sentence should be asked by me, why are you here?"

The person who greeted Xiao Peng was Norman's prison guard brother Curt.

Curt walked over: "Did I tell you, our prison has a field rehabilitation program, isn't this it?" ”

Xiao Peng was stunned, this is similar to China's labor reform, right? But 。。。。。。 Xiao Peng frowned and said, "What are you doing here? Why are you still chaining people? Isn't this the set of chain prisoners? This is a bit excessive, isn't it? Isn't it all abolished? Why did you start this set again?"

Curt smiled bitterly: "Who says it isn't? Anyway, this is really not the pot that we in Australia should bear, it is the American to do, in 1995, Sheriff Joy Apaio, in the United States, set up a prison for prisoners in chains in Nevada, USA. Every year, 2,000 prisoners from different prisons are sent to him for rehabilitation for a period of months to a year. ”

Xiao Peng was puzzled and asked, "The prison he set up himself, and then another prison gave him away? What does this mean?"

"Now all over the world, the crime rate is getting higher and higher, and now governments are spending more and more on the construction and management of prisons, so there are more and more private prisons," Curt said. This phenomenon is especially acute in the United States, where state prisons simply cannot support so many criminals. Joey Apeo's Prison in Chains is a private prison, and private prisons have appeared in places like Russia, South Africa, Japan, etc. ”

Xiao Peng still didn't understand: "I still want to tell you one more thing, don't say that the crime rate is getting higher and higher all over the world. China's crime rate is declining every year. With the increase in education and the quality of life, who has nothing to do with crime? And what does this private prison have to do with Australia? Do you also have so many criminals here that the prison can't be full?"

Curt smiled bitterly: "Some time ago, the U.S. Department of Justice stated that it would not renew the contracts of private prisons and gradually reduce their use until they were finally completely discontinued. These private prison companies in the United States are afraid of the stock market falling and are looking for other ways to be reassured. No, the American Rehabilitation Corporation approached our state government to advertise their prison programs, including the Prisoners in Chains. ”

It is said that children who grew up in China have learned from textbooks since childhood: prisons, military, police, courts, are all important parts of the state apparatus. They are all government responsibilities. However, this is not the case in other countries! In the United States, for example, even the state is regarded as a company, and the president is just the CEO, so there is no fuss in private prisons.

Originally, there were no private prisons, but the United States judicial system had mandatory minimum sentencing laws and felony longer sentences. Therefore, between 1980 and 2000, the number of prison inmates in the United States surged from 320,000 to more than 2 million! Now it is close to 3 million! It can be said that despite the fact that the population of the United States accounts for only 5 percent of the world, nearly one-third of the prisoners on the planet are in the United States!

At that time, prisons were overcrowded, and some states with high crime rates had to export prisoners to serve their sentences across state lines! or release them early, and there was even a strange phenomenon of 'waiting in line for death' because there were too many condemned prisoners.

At that time, the U.S. government had to build a prison on a large scale. By the 90s, 3,300 new prisons were built in various states, and in order to maintain the daily operation of these prisons, the United States spent more than 80 billion dollars a year!

Moreover, it costs money to build prisons and money to take care of prisoners, and the huge expenses make those public prisons simply unaffordable, and the consequence of being overstretched is the chaotic management, and there are endless scandals of abuse and violence against prisoners. Even international human rights organizations can't stand it anymore and issue warnings from time to time, which makes the United States, which has always regarded itself as a model of human rights, very faceless. In the end, the privatization of prisons had to be started to share the pressure.

These private prisons are not fuel-efficient lamps, and the companies behind them have not set up these private prisons to share worries for the country, but to make profits. And their way of running is similar to that of a hotel, the more guests you have, the more money you make. 'Let more people go to jail' is the guiding ideology of these private prisons.

And the biggest thing these private prisons have in common is that they dare to invest in politics. Pay political contributions to all kinds of politicians in the United States, elect politicians to power, and then profit from them. At the same time, he also lobbied in various states, resulting in the enactment of more and more stringent laws, and lawbreakers who did not need to go to jail were also imprisoned; in Arizona, as long as they felt suspicious illegal immigrants, they could be sent directly to prison without any charge! In Pennsylvania, two magistrates accepted bribes of $2.6 million from private prisons and directly sent more than 2,000 teenagers who had committed a small mistake to prison!

At that time, Pennylvania talked about the 'law' and was arrested and sent to prison for writing a prank note, and the sloppiness of the trial was outrageous, and in a minute or two, the case was closed in a hurry, and anyway, it went to prison!

In addition to this inherently moral flaw, private prisons have been widely criticized for their mismanagement. In recent years, the United States has also been belittling this private prison. That's why the U.S. Department of Justice is no longer renewing its contract with private prisons.

Truth be told, though, this has had no fundamental impact on the operation of private prisons. Because there is very little business in private prisons and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the real big boss is Immigration and Customs Enforcement. and state law enforcement agencies in various states. They are the biggest customers of these private prisons. As long as they continue to support them, these private prisons will continue to grow and become financially prolific. Don't you see that this is already eyeing the Australian market?

But after all, this kind of thing has nothing to do with Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng asked casually: "Curt, do you support such an approach?"

"Shet, who's going to support it!" Curt scolded angrily, "Do you still treat people as human beings? Let's just deal with the formalities! They set up an experimental prison area called a 'tent city' in the wasteland a few kilometers away. Six hundred inmates from our prison were brought here for an experimental demonstration to educate our state government about their benefits. What is the result? We're going to take these people out every day to eradicate the seaweed! Isn't this kind of weather killing people?"

Xiao Peng smiled bitterly: "Fortunately, it's winter, and the weather is not too hot." If it's summer, you'll be even more sinned!"

Curt said, "Who's to say it's not, but this winter is also the rainy season, and if it rains, it's called suffering." ”

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Looking at this weather, it shouldn't rain." How about a bottle of our Chinese Tsingtao beer? I won't brag to you, it's definitely the best beer in the world. ”

Curt waved his hand and said, "Xiao, thank you for your kindness, I'm working now。。。。。。 Oh, Shet!" Curt suddenly scolded. For no other reason, it suddenly began to rain heavily.

This rainy season in Australia really lives up to its name!