The BBC has a photojournal of life inside a Bolivian jail. “There are no guards, no uniforms or metal bars on the cell windows. This relative freedom comes at a price: inmates have to pay for their cells, so most of them have to work inside the jail, selling groceries or working in the food stalls. Others work as hairdressers, laundry staff, carpenters, shoe-shine boys or TV and radio repairmen.”
That’s just amazing. As the later photos and commentary indicate, it’s not heaven–but it’s certainly completely different from prisons in the US. It brings to mind Robert Murphy‘s brief speculation on prisons in Chaos Theory. [via LvMI]