Coronavirus VIII: Prisons & Jails: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
2020 ж. 20 Мау.
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As US prisons and jails see an alarming spike in COVID-19 infections, John Oliver discusses why the virus has spread so rapidly behind bars and what we can do to stop it.
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Releasing prisoners incarcerated for Marijuana possession in states where Marijuana is now legalized, could be a good start.
Agreed. But might be a good idea to test & quarantine on the way out.
Should have been a requirement from the start. And they should be compensated for their time from some of the millions the state is making in revenues from sales. And they should be given counseling on how to cope with life after prison.
You're right and you should say it
In my humble opinion, most non-violent drug offenders, no matter the drug, don't belong in prison. Prison is a pathetically ineffective treatment for drug addiction. This is a major side effect of our failed War On Drugs and mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines.
RubelliteFae compensated for their time in prison? They were in there for a reason: they broke the law. The fact those laws were shit and therefore no longer exist, is not a point of importance.
The fact that rioting prison inmates take wearing masks more seriously than the people outside is an absolute embarassment for the country.
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Watch black people get triggered over this comment
@@glipk why would they? Are you daft?
Unfortunately they all know someone who is sick or dead. It's real easy to just feel inconvenienced and not care until it effects someone you know.
@@TahtahmesDiary hey you! Stop touching your face! Clean your hands first you beautiful internet dweller
Imagine being in jail for a crime you didn't commit, you can't afford bail, and everyone around you is getting infected with a deadly virus. Sounds like some kind of horror movie.
or being in jail for something that is now legal for everyone else to do.
If someone actually made movies about things like that, they would be my hero. Many things need to change. Raising awareness is the first step.
@@flamethatsings-witchcraft5893 Are you kidding me? There's no money to make movies about real life problems like that. We need to spend that money on more superhero movies. Like Marvel vs. Avengers #5: Infinite Apocalypse Reloaded featuring Zombie Han Solo.
@@PatrickPierceBateman Indie films? There are those independent film festivals that will show a wide variety of things, including a few movies that got national attention at one time or another
Well that's entirely different issue...imagine being jailed for muder...
The second they privatized prisons and made them a money maker they insured that getting prisoners rehabilitated and released is never a priority, or even a goal at all.
Yeah I never understood that. How does that make sense to privatize prisons? The state decides the rules to follow and if you break them, they should do the imprisonment too. Thats at least how it works here in Switzerland. The downside is, that serious charges have pretty low sentence time, since they want to keep you as little as possible in prison.
They learned that from the UK. For a very long period that's how prisons were run there.
@@harundoener to avoid people becoming institutionalized, they can't be integrated back into society after that happens. It also avoids overcrowding, which is so much safer for the guards.
@@purplebean8989 The safest thing for the guards is good conditions for the prisoners, and not treating them like shit.
@@simenandersen6715 the types of people that sign up for those jobs are usually bullies who want to legally hurt others though. In a perfect world your comment is exactly right, unfortunately it isn't realistic. I agree with you 100% but it isnt going to happen....
"Officials told him he would not face additional discipline if he issued a statement saying the video is fake, but he refused" Jesus, this prisoner has more integrity than the blackmailers running the prison.
And they'll stick him in another cell with someone who will cough on him when he gets out of solitary....
He says about the propagandist and liar. If neither he, nor the man he claimed had CV, actually had CV, that makes him a liar, not some hero, who should be applauded.
Michael Gribbin if he gets out of solitary confinement
Michael Gribbin and I’m not over exaggerating. There have been reports of inmates being in solitary for years
@@willh4340 You are a sad person. He risked so much, there was nothing he could have gained, yet you stick with the blackmailing assholes. Not only do you lack critical thinking, you also lack humanity
This was the only outcome for a country that thinks running prisons as a money making business, it was as expected as it is depressing
Wisdom!! So refereshing!
It's pathetic and frankly, as a tool for justice, downright amoral.
Yeah, this was, sadly, the only logical outcome for a country with a prison population this large
The entire justice system is broken from start to finish. You know there's a great debunking of right-wing talking points about why blacks are overrepresented in police brutality and it also gives a comprehensive analysis of the solutions to police brutality: kzhead.info/sun/oLmChMOsmqKwoIk/bejne.html
John Oliver wants to release Rapists, murders, child abusers, WTF is wrong with u!
It's more than a little Orwellian to call something a "correctional facility" when its primary objective is to inflict suffering.
Correction can be achieved through suffering.
@@recommended7796 Ok Pavlov, take it easy.
@@bigrivet985 It's a shame so few people will see this comment. Well played sir.
Prison is freedom
@@recommended7796 That's why the american prison system is ineffective compared to prison systems that focus less on punishment and more on rehabilation
"“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'd go with "who it considers criminals" but I do agree with the general sentiment.
And Russia still didn´t change :(
I think just basic random sampling would give a good view of the problems facing americans today.
Absolutely 💯%! Society is only as just as how people treat their people in the harshest of conditions. Anyone who can't see that has been incredibly lucky to have been born with a silver spoon and 4 leaf clover up their ass!
Indeed : the moment society treats its convicts and criminals with more "humanity" than it does its law abiding citizens, then you've got yourself a truly sick and profoundly unjust society.
"It's not justice, it's neglect" is like the slogan of the US
How I wish this was not true, but it is true sadly.
The US is basically a third world country for at least 25% of its population, if not half...
@@Fierylunar The richest country in the world and can't pay their people living wage. Government killing people in the street. We've become what we hate.
@@myles6235 except for the fact that the U.S is not the richest country in the world
Put that on the money instead of In God We Trust.
When we said "depopulate the prisons" this is NOT what we meant.
I was thinking the same.
How do you know that isn't what he ment?
F
it kinda is...
Maybe it’s further than that. Maybe someone on the right figured out that most of our economic problems stem from a lack of resources and so intend for the virus to “rightsize” the population starting with the people furthest from their own dominant race and working toward the least fit (read, poorer) of their own race. And this is why the US is so ass-backwards on leveling off the infection numbers and at even developing a vaccine.
That guy who made the video and refused to lie and say it was fake is a hero. As if he 'deserves' prison, as if he 'deserves' this nightmare. America is disgusting!
Ironic how a "correctional" facility is trying to bribe him to lie.
Duh, you don't even know what he did! If it had been you he mugged and traumatised, I doubt you'd be so friendly
@Nic DeGrave Right, I agree with that! It is awful. I even agree that his actions were heroic. So...what was I talking about anyway? Sorry, lack of sleep
For all you know they committed murder or child rape or something...
@Ed Kelly That's a good point, it was probably blackmail not bribery. I think it depends on what the "default" future was going to be. If they were going to lock him up anyway for some other reason, and then they offered to forego the punishment, then that'd be a bribe.
"We are all on this death cruise ship together" - John Oliver I could see myself using that in a conversation.
I might just make that my yearbook quote
I might just try to work it into conversation
this death cruise ship is the planet earth
False. That's a quote from Eric Russell at 10:57. Not John Oliver
Currently sailors across the world are in a hell of a mess right now. They're trapped on board ship because of corona fears.
I mean how the hell does anyone say a prison is a closed system when all the guards come and go on a daily basis?
The human mind tends to build simple maps, so in that man's mind no one was going in or out of a prison. I vaguely remember watching a KZhead video on this subject, where the mental map of where a place was located and how you'd get there did not correlate very well with actual reality.
Also prisoners go sometimes.. I hope they are not all in there for life.
If they're closed systems how did covid get in there? Lol these people really don't think
MURICA
Also, if it was a closed system - how did they contract the Virus in the first place?
Why are these called "correctional facilities" when nobody gives a shit about actually correcting anything?
Question from non-US: what's the difference between a correctional facility and a prison? Or are they the same thing?
Maybe dont commit crime
The slaves are rebelling I don't like that word Sorry, the prisoners with jobs are rebelling
They are the same thing
You have to break a law to get enrolled.
My boyfriend is in a prison in California. All of the men in his yard popped positive for the virus. They brought in 20 men that were negative for the virus, left them there for about a week and transferred them back to their yard. They also took one man from his yard and put him on a different yard (of course that yard had no positive tests) for a week. The CO's kept refusing to wear masks, specially the employees that work in the main kitchen that feeds the entire prison.
WOW! Actual *_Genocide._* That's *not surprising.* May God forever damn this Paraiah State.
such stupidity. are they TRYING to kill people? dude, screw youtube, take this to the fucking news guys.
John Oliver makes extremely important points here. He is the kind of advocate we need in our hope of moving towards a more just, sane, and healthy society. You go man!
These lockdown episodes prove that John doesn't need a live audience.
Big fax
Are you sure there ever was a live audience? Why would they never show it?
He's even better without one
Lukáš Herman So you assume they’ve just been outright lying about having an audience? Are you assuming that every time the audience didn’t laugh and John commented on it, it was all scripted? Idk
@@Kemaaaaa Are you serious? I've been there mate, and I can assure you I was there pretty much live and alive. Also there is a ton of video footage of the audience. And last but not least why the fuck should they fake that? Just why? That's so unbelievable stupid.
I hope John Oliver saw that they named a marble after him in the 2020 marble league
...just for some positive things...
I'm sure he did, given his show now sponsors it.
Jelly’s marble runs? It that the KZhead channel your talking about? I assume not but still.
@@justsomeoneelse5942 *you're And your assumption is incorrect.
I’d assume they’d let him pick out his own marble to represent him or at least get his ok on one.
He really was trying not to lose it at the end there, an appropriate shift in tone given the gravity of this situation. Just damn John. Amazing
We should be dealing with “burglars and theives” by providing them with social support and figuring out why they where stealing in the first place. Packing people into a box and leaving them to rot for no other reason than slightly denting corporate profits is NOT a solution and only shows how the justice system cares more about product than human lives.
Now why would they do that? It doesn't benefit them, doesn't increase their profits and they very well might even LOSE money if such a thing proced successful because then they might get penalized for not having full prisons!
Well put.
Jails often do not even give patients their meds. As an ER nurse, we get very frustrated when the jail sends people who are having BP or Diabetes issues who would have been fine IF they had gotten their meds!!
Wow, I didn't know that. No wonder it's so easy to end up back in the system. When they are released after being off their meds of course they are prone to having an episode (for mental illnesses) or breakdown. We have to start TREATING mental illness in this country instead of sending racists with guns and handcuffs to deal with it. *EDIT: I was not implying that people with mental illnesses are criminals. Simply that when someone publicly displays behavior that doesn't make sense to neurotypicals, the cops are the ones who end up handling the situation. Their mental illness is interpreted as being disruptive to society (rather than a health problem that is first and foremost affecting THEM) and is therefore policed instead of treated.
@@jennys9043 People with mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.
@@1901180108 doesn't at all change that when they have a breakdown they are treated like criminals, often are jailed for mental health issues, and then denied their treatment the whole time they're in. Mental health is POLICED in this country, not treated.
LeJon Brames If by "disappear" you mean "successfully rehabilitated and reintegrated into society", then yes I agree.
Guys in jail like to not take the medicine given to them to get a hospital break. It's like a mini vacation where if they're lucky maybe they can even come back with some extra drugs from doc.
John Oliver is becoming Angry Mr. Rogers and I love him for it
Marking this comment cuz I see that joke being used in the near future.
Oh I love this description.
@Alexander Mahterian: But I thought that role was already filled by Cody Johnston. kzhead.info/tools/vlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng.htmlvideos
"Don't MAKE me take my shoes off, boys and girls."
Mister Roger sings when he's angry. kzhead.info/sun/h5msgr5wbWOdfps/bejne.html
Thank you, John, for bringing attention to this problem. Most find it difficult to be sympathetic to people in prison, but if they knew anything about the "justice" system, they would know that most people are in prison unjustly in many ways. And prisons don't work, especially at rehabilitation, which is not at a foundational principle at any prison. We are just keeping dysfunctional cycles going and handicapping a section of our citizenry. The fact that we incarcerate almost 700 people per 100,000 of our population is ghastly (this does not count juvenile detainees), most of whom are people of color. The US incarceration rate is more than Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, double that of the Russian Federation, Brazil, Cuba, etc.
I completely agree on the rehabilitation and cutting dysfunctional cycles, but you're also right when you say that it is very difficult to be sympathetic. If prisons were the only population to be hit by this virus, I would change my tune and totally be sympathetic, but we have more covid cases outside of prisons than inside
Sad but true. The American justice system only focuses on punishing people and not on rehabilitation !
Ugh just want to give John a hug at the end of this video, you can see how hard just talking about these events are for him.
@miko foin It's called empathy bud, the fact John Oliver is funny, well dressed and witty are just bonuses.
Rehabilitation means nothing if society doesn’t accept them when times served.
I dont know how USA is handling this situations. But in Germany Inmates will get "fake" certificate of employment or "fake" school reports so that possible employer cant see that they went to prison
@@PetstoUwU wait, really? Im german and didnt knew this. This is amazing
@@TSGPhilipp www.vera.org/blog/dispatches-from-germany/what-german-prisons-do-differently kzhead.info/sun/rLOmk7Rxqn-tfH0/bejne.html There's a lot CNN won't tell you.
That's not what US prisons are for mate
Then it definitely defeats the purpose of prison. Tragic!
United States of America, Land of the Free* *Terms and conditions apply.
Don't forget the nonrefundable required fee.
Fucking brilliant, man.
Highest incarceration rate in the world.
See skin color for details. Offer not valid south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Offer limited just about everywhere else.
Should have read that damb terms and conditions before birth :/
This is very sad. I’m wondering how those kids who were taken from their parents and put in those camps are doing. No word on the news about how they are fairing. 😔😢
you can thank Trumpanzee for that
The ICE officers are basically killing them now
“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.” -Pjotr Kropotkin.
@Mantorras Montquilla Provide them rehabilitation services. Make them realize what they did was wrong and release them as functional members of society.
@Mantorras Montquilla You know that doesn't work, right? That attitude has been shown only to increase crime. Pedos can be put on hormone therapy and be given psychological couciling. Obviously, they would be prevented from ever making contact with their victims again after release.
Surgé Land not to mention the root cause of criminal behavior can often be a trauma. These people need help, not cells
@@BlazeSLK Exactly. It honestly feels as if people punish criminals to feel morally superior. It's quite sad.
@Vadim Kaz These people are rare, and should instead be given life in prison.
America has made me emotionally burned out.
The truest statement in this whole thread.
Same in Slovenia... 😓 stay safe
Same
*heavy sighs* SAME. I'm so tired of this every.fucking.day.
It’s why we all dose or drink. We’re subconsciously or consciously aware that we live in our own manufactured Hell. Seriously, we treat animals better than we treat ourselves. It’s a sickness beyond barbarism.
Best sentence apply to everyone everywhere everytime - "If it takes the destruction of property for a system to pay attention to human lives then we are in dark place"
"Riots are the language of the unheard." Rev Dr Martin Luther King.
And we ARE...
System needs more money not more People..
Yep. Giving a voice to the voiceless and frustrated/angry.
The local jail had a riot last year. What changed was the inmates sentences that started it. That's all.
Love John Oliver, but I feel that it would be very beneficial to everyone if at the end of the segments the production team included links to help on the subject that they cover. What are some places I can go to either volunteer or donate towards prison reform and/or getting inmates out during Corona? We should all be doing more than just passively watching this.
If Trump had acted sooner and not sabotaged this country with this virus, we wouldn't be in this mess
@@nickybrockman5320 coulda, woulda, shoulda but too fucking late. Can't do anything about a shitty response so a community you gotta manage the consequences
I mean, you're really just asking for convenience. If you truly want to donate or volunteer, Google's got your back. Hit up the ol search engine, research whatever you find and make your choice.
Jake Caratacus you’re totally right, I was asking out of convenience for myself and others, it would be amazing if in the description there were links so those who were effected by the video could take immediate action, because it had been proven that people love to be passive supporters and can be deterred by even the littlest work (see: googling). Here are two links that I urge you to follow, they are for petitions regarding prison reform. We’re all in this together. Spread love. www.signherenow.org/petition/end-mass-incarceration/civic-action/ action.aclu.org/petition/real-criminal-justice-reform-now
Yes, ideally Trump should fix things, but I doubt he would do anything. I suppose if even the president himself isn’t going to take the work, the citizens would have to pick up his bullshit instead. I don’t know specifically about practical ways to help prisoners, but considering prisons are unfairly composed of black people, helping the BLM movement also helps the unfair imprisonments. This is the most extensive link of 75 practical things to do, and I suggest keeping it copy pasted into your computer for reference. Please share to as many people who can help. Thank you. medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
Wow! I've never heard a man speak so passionately on behalf of people he could so easily ignore. Thank you for being the peoples Champion. You sincerely deserve a Nobel for commentary. Love
„That is not justice, it’s neglect.“ Well said.
I would argue it boarders on manslaughter, neglect is a far too mild term in my opinion.
@@creativedesignation7880 I'd say abuse is a good middle ground.
I still can’t believe people are making wearing a mask a political issue.
RIGHT?
Yeah division likes these makes me glad that I'm a Democrat.
Yeah, stupid Republicans. /s
I dunno, I just came from a flat-Earth playlist.
My body my choice. Not the governments job to tell me I have to ware a mask. 26 year old males have nearly no deaths from covid and the few it does have all had underlying conditions. They should let all the people under the age of 65 go out and get covid to build Hurd immunity to protect our elderly. Keep our elderly In quarantine until we have a have majority immunity
Sleeping head to foot, huh, sounds like the sleeping conditions of slave ships...wonder where they learned that useful nugget from.
@Robin Delargy but the reason why prisons are overcrowded is because public servants wanted to pack as many bodies as possible intro prisons. it's a money-saver.
Well you know that answer already
Hospitals in SAN Francisco during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-20. They didn’t know what they were dealing with and tried all sorts of things. Having patients on wards with the beds placed like this helped. It’s not sophisticated, but it seemed to keep the death rate at a lower level.
I didn't knew there was a difference between a jail and a prison. That says how little many people, including myself, actually knows about the judicial system.
Imagine going to jail for a crime you didn’t commit but you couldn’t post bail… And now your trial dates been postponed indefinitely because of COVID-19....
That's so damn saddening and maddening at the same time...
Its happening
horrific
It was actually the very first thing I thought about when this happened!
You don't need to imagine. 1) Just move to Russia 2) Throw a paper cup in the policeman. Corrupted Judiciary, gulag style jails, TB, hepatitis and other pretty stuff included for free. But if you got money even killing a child by driving on it will be judged as child itself jumped under your car.
"That's not justice, it's neglect." You hear his voice tremble. He's about to cry about how broken America is.
I started crying when he said that, and I don't even live in the US.
Lady Justice is supposed to be blindfolded so she *can't* tip the scales, not so that she can... How many people are dying in her name, who her courts themselves said didn't *need* to die for their crimes? These are dark times.
That's two episodes now where I've heard John's voice tremble like that... America is truly horrific, and 2020 is shining a spotlight on it..
America isn't broken. For something to be broken, it first has to be functional.
@@thirstfast1025 o l o
I criticized Black Mirror for suggesting that the criminal justice system could ever become aimless, resource- wasting torture, but now I'm not so sure.
Prisons need to be changed into rehabilitation centers for nonviolent and violent crime. Emphasis on rehabilitation. End the federal and industrial discrimination against prisoners and ex convicts and give them another chance to contribute meaningfully to society. If we kill everyone that does something wrong, we're literally perpetually shooting ourselves in the foot rather than trying to do better with what we have.
“Jails don’t make problems disappear, only people”
@David Reads Don't you want to be tough on crime?! If we don't jail people for jaywalking or for committing the smallest offense then we endorse anarchy. Since we live in a fascist republic. Let's do the right thing and make all of America a prison. If anyone can commit a crime than all people are suspect, and if suspicion of doing a crime is worthy of jail than all suspects must be imprisoned. This is America where even a thought is a crime.
@@jalicea1650 You had me in the first half not gonna lie
"No People, No Problem" -Stalin
@David Reads Its not the prison system who is sending criminals to prison. Its the courts after they commit a crime
Ture
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Robert Heinlein said that it is evident by the condition of public restrooms.
Norway is the most civilized country on earth then. Just look at this: kzhead.info/sun/gMWufc17g2l9bJE/bejne.html
We rehabilitate in Norway, we don't want them back in, we want them to be part of society, paying taxes and working like every normal person
@@Impetuss Yea and it shows in the rates on how large percentage of prisoners reoffend. In Norway it's the lowest. In USA one of the highest
@@ZeroZiltch Saw a german Documentary about prisons in Norway a few years back, it´s really quite the refreshing sight. Even murderers get treated like human beings, the focus allways being reintegration into the society. This is how it should be done everywhere, countries should steal good ideas from other countries far more often.
You can really hear how pained he is with the facts he's presenting. Live shows weren't like this. I think even after all of this is over, Last Week Tonight should consider having a few episodes a season without an audience, if the topic calls for a more serious tone. It really hits much differently without an audience to react to him. The gravity of the conversation is felt more.
America continues breaking our hearts and John Oliver continues pleading with it to stop. I don't even know what to say anymore. The whole world has its problems but I have to say, I am so, so proud of my American friends and peers for having survived that dystopic place and even more so those doing what they can to fix it. You will make a difference. There's still time to fix this. Y'all gotta keep trying. Good luck.
Being a good person means having empathy for everyone; otherwise, you're just looking for an 'appropriate' person to hate. As long as half the country doesn't understand this, we're doomed.
Exactly! If you just care about people you like, that is just another form of selfishness. It is just taking care of the ones around you, so that they will take care of you and you don't end up alone. A person with real empathy will sympathise with everyone.
It's kind of hard to have empathy for both the persecutor and the persecuted.
AJ Deadshow can’t use blanket like thinking. Case by case is more fitting.
AJ Deadshow also a lot of times it’s victimless crimes.
@Angry Pent 0 Empathy for people like you.
I agree that we’re all in the same storm. However, not everyone is in the same boat to weather it. Some people are metaphorically on a raft, others a yacht. It sounds like prisoners are being actively thrown overboard...
Nope, they're stuck on a overpopulated cruise
Eduardo Perez over populated cargo ship
Some others trying not to get drowned
@@mw7845 and they're charging to evacuate in the emergency boats.
And the people on metamophrical yatchs could actually just literally weather this storm in a yatch
Thank you!! As a mother of an incarcerated person, thank you!! We asked for the prison system to send my son home. He has about 14 months yet to serve. We were told that the process to consider his release takes two years
I hope that your son is doing okay, or maybe even released! Stay safe.
@@Goldilocks19 so kind of you. No, he's still in. But we're getting closer!
@@suem7172 I’ll be thinking of you guys. I’m so sorry. I hope to live to see complete criminal justice reform!
Respect for John Oliver and the Last Week Tonight’s crew. I hope things will get better fast.
Let me guess. The conservative response to that is: "If you didn't want to contract a terrible virus you shouldn't have committed a crime."
@Florian --- Of course. It's always the same with these guys when it comes to "criminals". "Shouldn't commit the crime, if you won't do the time", etc...but even if someone does the time and comes out again, and wants to change his or her life...these guys won't allow it, because: "once a criminal, always a criminal!"
I mean the far right probably... A lot of conservatives however care for humans go figure
@Rahul Mondal Oh don't worry, he'll tell you they are fake.
@Jeremy Lueth Claiming false statistics on the back of so many dead people is incredibly disgusting.
Jeremy Lueth Over 100,000 unnecessary deaths. Do US is leading the amount of coronavirus deaths. The most vulnerable in our populace are the ones dying the most from this. And you want to go way off the rails… On some things so fucking important.
"That's not justice; it's neglect." Ooph. Hit me hard. Well said.
And perhaps even rises to a violation of incarcerated people’s rights under the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
@azscott correct I'm pretty positive that it would classify and cruel and unusual punishment.
Thank you for letting many prisoners voice heard through your show ! It means a lot the the family and friend of people on prison
The level of compassion that John Oliver is showing in this vid is what I wish the whole world had... that just because someone did something wrong doesn't mean they deserve death.
Prisons and hospitals should NOT be privatized.
Goverment and tax to. To prevent fraud usury law are important. Oliver's plea's are all time human high and devenetiv a challenge.
Three things we simply should not make money off of: prisons, healthcare, and schools.
Already tried that. Didn't work. State institutions work worse than private ones almost every time. It's not about who manages those institutions but how they compete with eachother and how much they get penalized for doing things wrong. Usually public institutions can get away with murder much easier.
@@andresabastante9539 Yes, because people are getting murdered left and right in European hospitals and prisons.
@@halforest1118 not sure about Europe but I know it's pretty common for people to die of treatable issues because of difficult it can be ti get things done
This pandemic is revealing all the injustice, inequality and brokenness in this country. Horrifying.
Yeah, honestly not sure, but we might have a new revolution happening if this keeps up.
It’s only revealing to the normally unbothered majority. But now they’re at home, and now they’ve got time... Surprise! It was racist the whooole time! Lmao
A lot of people have known about them already. Since the Kennedy assassination they've really come to the forefront, not that the government was ever very moral or the system very righteous or utopia-like. The pandemic hasn't been kind on America to be sure, and since we've fared the worst with it out of any developed nation it has certainly taken the country down a few pegs in the world's eyes, questioning its first world or superpower status.
CV is fake, look up gov agendas 21 & 201. CV was an "exercise" and was planned for total control in 2018. These deaths in the prisons are extermination to make room for us that refuse the vaccine, mark of the beast. They aren't dying of covid. Its murder.
@@graceford1294 ahh yes mark of the beast. The age old "the devil's out to get you the government is behind it it just you wait there's going to be a new world order". When is it happening? people have been saying the same shit for a hundred years and they've never been right before
Very courageous and heart warming perspective on the situation. Respect John Oliver
John Oliver is such a great source for the elusive "rare insult" The one that caught me off guard: "Human Squash Court" xD
He's starting to get tired of it. You can hear it. He's angry, he's sad, he's defeated. We're here. We're listening ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
he sounded like he was about to cry at the end and rightfully so. he knows that people are hearing what he says but arent listening. as much as you'd like to think people are listening, those who can do things that count aren't.
And Voting and fighting the good fight
Marla Singer we vote march in peace with righteousness we can teach our children right and we fight the good fight do not lose hope or compassion and passion. Stay strong and safe. 🌹
PS we count. Our numbers grow day by day. You count. You count And by God we Will Stand and be counted.
@@commonsense571 hopefully not the God who allows that
"That’s not justice; it’s neglect." "Neglect" is an understatement. Those people aren't just being ignored - they've been specifically selected to suffer and die. This isn't justice, nor is it neglect. This is sadism.
It's revenge, and it has no place in a justice system
tutorial: brush him It’s not even an eye for an eye. Up to 40% prisoners are in for non violent offence like unable to pay bills, bail themselves out and possession of drugs which includes marijuana. Yeah being poor get you locked up in “the greatest country”. Pure exploitation of underclass and minorities and sadism is pretty much present in every institutions of USA.
Exactly. Profiteering from it, too.
It's actually genocide
@@justalostlocal They want to teach us that crime doesn't pay, but what they're actually teaching us is that hard work and common decency don't pay
"We are all on this death cruise ship together." What else can one say?
Thanks for the subtitles!
I like how he lays this out AND gives suggestions for reasonable actions to take
I agree. Nowadays, if you don't add solutions, some people will complain that you offered no solutions
I feel like I'm in complete agreement with everything that John's said. I also feel utterly exhausted, watching everything get worse, and feeling like I don't have anything I can do about it.
"an emotionally-starved tree-frog that wasn't hugged enough as a tadpole..." gold
I swear he's almost in tears at the end of every segment these days...
He's begging and begging but nothing changes.
he's not the only one.
I could see it too.
Well, we live in a failed state so...
yeah, for good reason
It's even more depressing when you know that some of these inmates are still incarcerated for cimes related to Marijuana which is now legal in most states
Isn't there anyway to undo such a thing?
Some of them are incarcerated because their only option has been a plea deal negotiated by overworked public defenders in two minutes or less. America doesn't even really check that people it incarcerates are guilty, it just grabs someone and makes it near impossible to have a fair trial.
@@bellerophon- They don't even free people who were imprisoned because of falsification of evidence by police officers
Problem is technically they did a felony. Criminal laws are nonretrospective. This nonretrospectivity was done to prevent being incarcerated by ex post facto laws (where a law was created to punish people AFTER it was done for purpose of extended detainment) and double jeopardy. It also created an unanticipated logical backdraft wherein the crime WAS punishable before its repeal. Hence those who were caught while it was still illegal cannot be undone because it was a violation back then...
@@bellerophon- there is, their are things like the innocence project which is a database system to help identify who should be released based on things such as marijuana crimes expungement. Problem is, that's just 1 avenue to get people obsolved and we would need people to give a shit to begin with.
I can’t believe you mentioned the wine in a Pringles can that is my home town.
Who is that honourable inmate, and how do I pay into his commisary?
Advice: stop arresting people for personal use drug charges.
I agree.
And that's half of the prison population right there!
So ppl should just be able to be as jacked up on drugs as they want? What happens when your high ass runs my kid over riding his bike? You wouldn't need to worry about prison. You wouldn't make it there
SARACINO that’s literally homicide, they shouldn’t be arrested if they’re just smoking on the street or on their front porch, wildly different
@@CINO0816 The exact same thing already can and does happen. It also happens with alcohol and with cellphones of all things. I don't agree with drug use, but it's far more dangerous as it is than to just legalize it and take the steps to make laws for regulation and treatments to address addiction
Legit release every prisoner who is there for small drug posession, that'll make a big difference without releasing "real criminals"
How do you separate those who really are only there on small drug charges vs those who are there for more but took the plea on the small drug charges? You going to go through all those cases? I. Not trying to argue against it, it’s just a bit more complicated sometimes
@@Dominus_Umbrae the American government and the IRS worked together to give all of us under a certain yearly wage $1,200. If they can do that, it should be really easy. In fact, even the most simple of excel programs can have you search by category and have that category come up first.
@@Dominus_Umbrae It does not, cannot and never has mattered what somebody actually DOES. What matters is what they are convicted of. If you kill somebody and take a plea bargain for assault with a deadly weapon, in the eyes of the law, you did not kill somebody. We cannot retroactively punish people for things we weren't capable of proving they did in a court of law.
@@Dominus_Umbrae its simple, those people... are innocent until proven guilty of a crime. If the prosecutor in their case couldn't convict them of serious crime, then they can't be punished as if he had.
@@Dominus_Umbrae Maybe if there are too many people in prison to do a full audit of cases and time served, there are just plain too many people in prison? Also, I would hope that it's worth spending 4 hours per prisoner, to potentially make a difference between their life and death (or permanent, extreme disability). I'm sure there are a few hundred groups around the country that would review cases pro-bono, if we really needed to throw a bunch of manual labor at the problem.
He was really passionate on this one! Wish I watched him live but he is more hard hitting wothout an audience. Good job to his writing team! Here here for those in the background
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen John closer to tears
If they just pardon all “marijuana” offenders, almost half the prison population would be cleared.
@Michael Harpole Read this www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers
Most of the country is on board with this. I never tried MJ, but I've been supportive of the right for over 30 years now. There is some wisdom in your statement.
smoking weed should be legal everywhere, like how tf would i be hurting anyone if i smoked it?
@Michael Harpole Wrong
More like all drug offenses. Like alcohol prohibition was proof people are going to do what they want no matter how controlling their government is. Look at parts of Europe. All drugs legal and crime rates and overdose rates dropped tremendously. And if a cop finds a junkies stash they give it back and give them treatment options if they want help. Cops give them a chance to find help. Our cops and other americans treat our citizens addicted to drugs like worthless trash. The stigma is insane. A junkie robs and steals because of how society is built. It's expensive because drugs are illegal. Dolphins get high off blowfishes so I mean. They're smarter and they like getting high. So much hypocrisy in america.
John is truly a compassionate human being.
He seems so hurt by some of his stories. He cares.
Not to mention how much sense he makes
@@coltino99 Does it really make sense to release dangerous and bad people? You can't say you want to solve one problem by creating another one.
@@hamidkarim4811 It needs to be looked into seriously though. Everybody released is a big statement. That could never happen. Release some of them, maybe transfer them to better living conditions, and hurry and process the people that are just in the queue. Also does this show give anybody else anxiety? I've watched like 12 in a row just going back in time and holy shbit 2020 sucked.
@@hamidkarim4811 gotta stop this weird thought that everyone in prison is dangerous. There are a hell of a lot of non violent offenders.
Great video pointing out an incredibly important issue. Also, I am so happy to see that there are professional captions. Thank you!
Thank you for talking about this issue!!!
It’s like this coronavirus exposed so much problems we already have in our society.
That's what a crisis tends to do to societies. The important thing's to learn from the experience and try to not repeat the mistakes from our past.
Many knew. Many just didn’t fucking care.
Yes. Deep rooted problems without solution that we just got used to. Now they're screaming at our faces and we still have nothing to do to fix them - I'm from Brazil and we're going through something very similar here, if not worse.
Oh, Andre, I heard. Your leader is just as much maybe even more, an ass to the people of the country as our fake leader is
@@MyNontraditionalLife That's seemingly our way of life at least for the moment, everyone for themselves I'm the only one who matters, fuck everyone else. I mean you see this very often in debates over any sort of social program like universal health care "why should I have to pay for someone else's healthcare, if they can't afford it that's their problem"
It almost seems like the prisons assume that everyone incarcerated there is there for life. Lots of people are in prison for relatively short periods of time.
Tell you what... Anyone that personally wants to house, feed, support and take physical and mental responsibility for randomly chosen offenders including any responsibility for their actions under your supervision while living amongst your family and friends, has my vote. That oughta weed you idiots out rather quickly.
@@williamhutton2126 Gotta love that compassionate conservatism. Let them all die, that's exactly what Jebus would want. You fascists disgust me.
@@williamhutton2126 Oh look at this perfect, stupid little angel. Everyone makes mistakes. Spending a couple days in jail for a minor offense, of which you haven't been convicted in court yet, because you can't post bond, an already ridiculous concept, shouldn't mean a potential death sentence due to COVID. That's the point here. It's easy to talk down from a high horse. Just pray you don't fall off.
@@williamhutton2126 Even if you think your argument is valid, how about those awaiting trial as stated in the video? You think they should be exposed to a deadly virus for a crime they haven't been judged for simply because they don't have the money to get out?
william hutton The criminal justice system has never been about “rehabilitation.” It’s about recidivism and the constant revolving door, especially to minorities and the poor. Why else do you think that these private prisons have been popping up like weeds over the past decade? But you’re right, we should definitely incarnate young men for having an ounce of a drug for years; meanwhile, people can get drunk off their asses, destroy property and relationships, kill their bodies and it’s fine
i think this is the most serious ive ever seen John
It feels like if a prisoner dropped a full size soap on the shower floor, all the other inmates would plunge and fight for the soap.
lmao
Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that one of the richest countries on Earth CHARGES INMATES FOR SOAP. Pandemic or not, that is barbaric.
The richest and most powerful country in the history of the world, wholly unequal, far removed from any semblance of true democracy and utterly devoid of the liberty of which it so prides itself. The US is a police state at home, a malignant military presence abroad all for the benefit of the almighty dollar.
You get free soap if you want it. Most people dont want those little motel soaps so they buy their own.
'One of the richest countries' gets that way by bleeding every last cent out of the lower classes & keeping it all for the 1%. I'm disabled, physically AND mentally, and I don't even make enough to rent an apartment or eat. If not for food stamps, I'd starve. And I'm currently homeless; have been for 9 months (I have to thank my roommate for not paying her half of the rent, which I now have to pay off because I was Head of Household), while I wait for my name to come up on low income housing in an apartment complex nearby that it will probably be worth my life to move into. I attempted a crowdfunding campaign to get the back rent paid off, but COVID hit only a month or so after I started, so people did not have the ability to help. So that bombed. Still, having spent my entire adult life disabled, spending days at a time not eating when food stamps would mess up my paperwork & cut me off without warning, being physically abused for 6 years by a 'friend' who at first wanted to help me (he later decided I was faking my mental disability & every disability paycheck was coming out of his retirement), and now waiting, and waiting, and waiting to get a place..Yeah. You're average American will TALK a good game about helping people, but put someone like me in front of them and suddenly it's 'Oh, well..I'll just donate these expired cans of food to my food bank instead'. And yes, when I was in the homeless shelter in 2016 (before I moved in with the roommate who bailed on paying rent, and after I fled the physical abuse), a grocery store 'donated' 'vegetables' to the shelter: The top row was clean and healthy and fresh. Everything hidden under that was rotted and moldy. They, and so many others, use food banks and shelters as garbage cans while patting themselves on the back for 'donating to the less fortunate'. So don't be surprised; America stays rich by bleeding out the lower-middle-class and under. People will throw JUST ENOUGH of a scrap to say 'I did my part'. People in the US rarely give because giving is good. They give because THEY want to FEEL GOOD. They do it for selfish reasons, and because they're being selfish, they give 'just enough' or 'This expired? Well, someone hungry will be grateful to have ANYTHING, after all'. The local food bank rarely has enough food for everyone , and 90% of it is on it's last day or past sell-by/use-by dates. I've stopped going, because I actually feel bad about how little food they have at times, and me eating less means someone's child could eat more. So don't be surprised that a 'rich country' like America treats it's prisoners & disabled like third-class citizens; that's HOW they stay rich. The less money they spend on feeding or housing or training the poor, or helping out low-danger prisoners find stable jobs, the more cars some billionaire politician can buy.
@@Eguzky I wish you good fortune. Greetings from switzerland :)
@@timobertschmann350 Thank you very much! :) I hope the curve is flattening out there and people are staying safe!
The virus is shining a light on all the holes in our society.
If you want, there's a great debunking of right-wing talking points about why blacks are overrepresented in police brutality and it also gives a comprehensive analysis of the solutions to police brutality: kzhead.info/sun/oLmChMOsmqKwoIk/bejne.html
The light is orange and not so bright
So true so many things have come out in the open
You know, this virus is actually doing a better job than Trump at exposing those holes in his whole presidency. I think we have a winner for this year's election! #coronavirus2020
The holes are all the same, they are called compassion!
My Lord John, I have been a fan for years but I have never bern more proud of how you bring truth to the public than this video! Please continue to be a social justice warrior! God bless you.
Thank you again, John Oliver! Your speech is so truth and powerful.
Saying that prisons are “closed systems” doesn’t take into consideration of all the staff that works there and goes home to families and moves around their communities ... pretty scary.
Also, how did Covid get in, if its closed? Oh yeah, it's not.
Ryan Harvey that’s horrible. Is he going to be okay?
That's literally what he just said.
That's exactly what John said at least a couple of times. Didn't you hear that? No need to repeat the same thing AGAIN!
Also as stated, prisoners are often moved from prison to prison as needs and changes to their cases arise.
The fact that you can hear John Oliver's voice breaking at the end says it all.
Right? It's rare to see him so outright pissed off.
Inmates show more sense than some of our non-incarcerated citizens.
If you have never been caught committing an offence, or charges were never laid, it is very, very easy to Other those who have been. The reality is that you are just one bad day away from being one of them.
One thing I can appreciate about John is that he CITES HIS SOURCES. Tons of news media just blabs and never shows proof of where they get the info. Thanks for the great reporting as usual dude.
He's not a reporter, as he always says when asked. And he probably has a segment or two somewhere about the reasons traditional reporting is in a poorly state, come to think of it...
Yea dude
Lol, he can cite a media that also blabs. But is much better than nothing.
Just because he isn’t a “reporter” doesn’t mean he doesn’t give a news report. It’s the act of doing so. Chill with the EXACT SEMANTICS bs
That said for whatever reason he got the Ballon boy story wrong, not that it was the crucial part of this video.
Stripping the humanity out of every single issue....an American specialty!
It’s sad really. A part of our individualist culture. We’re on our own and we don’t look out for others.
Xtians strike again!!!
@Nicolle Elle Padron you are horrible.
@Nicole Elle Padron Get out of here nihilistic goth: there's a reason you never made it past the post-modern 90s.
Nah dude. It's pretty much everywhere. Where ever you find the voices of Medical Staff being stifled, you will find a surprising lack of empathy. Which, after all's said and done, is the exact reason we have all these problems to begin with. We got many problems being highlighted in this years 'Apocalyptic Bingo 2020 Edition'; take your pick.
Does it mean: no matter how long a person is sentenced in jail, that they might end up as having a death sentence 50/50.
no, it means no matter how long your sentence or how severe your crime you may effectively be sentenced to death.
Thank you for bringing up these issues John
Ironically enough, it's not just neglect.. it's criminal neglect... punishable by law.
Never ending loop
Like hiding behind a fake name is ... criminal by Us Federal Law? Are you or were you ever a member of the communist party?
@@MrFlatage I would be if there was one. Communism is 1000x better than capitalism. Capitalism is terrible for 99% of the people and only good for the 1%
Haha lol 😂 ADAs and cops don’t suffer from consequences. They do whatever they want and feel above the law because they don’t suffer consequences. I’ve seen tons of examples where cops lied, ADAs falsified evidence or hid it, etc and even when caught they have immunity. They aren’t there to protect and serve, only protect and serve themselves. Conviction rates and arrest rates are all they care about. We also throw anyone with any mental illness in jail instead of actually treating them like humans. Look up Darren Rainey.. he was schizophrenic and the guards put him in a room rigged with a “shower “ except it was over 180 degrees and he burned to death slowly. Apparently his skin peeled off at the touch but they denied it and covered it up.
NaN ok, while @Michel Platteeuw ‘s comment was out of the blue and obviously ignorant, yours isn’t much better. Communism in its many forms has never been able to work because it is far to easy for a select few to take complete control over the system, vs. capitalism which when managed correctly results in a fair dispersion of wealth and when managed incorrectly (as it is now) a concentration of wealth that is still very dependent on the 99%’s approval
“That’s not justice, it’s neglect” hit me hard
Jeremy Lueth i really hope that video gets as many dislikes as possible bc while i support the right for conspiracy theorist to post their little videos on youtube for free speech so they can appeal to you, i dont support harmful/misinformation being spread, so please whoever sees that link please click it and go dislike it or even flag it so it doesnt get ad revenue, itd be my honor
@Jeremy Lueth say what? You're like a caricature of a fascist. How are you going to come in here, offer a shoulder to cry on hoping you'll find a fellow fascist, and then call them the worst names that come to your mind? BTW Communism and Judaism are not bad things. Fascism, white supremacy and Nazism however, are. Eat my smegma.
@@SeanHemenway WTF... why should it be flagged considering there wasn't anything false presented in that video...
"That’s not justice, it’s revenge”, I say.
Claudeus Gothicus I said it was misleading. He used facts, like the death rate being down to dismiss what the media warns about coronavirus. Yes the death rate has been decreasing but if more people get the virus and we just forget about the whole thing all together then more people die. Plus its the leading cause of death in the world and there are multiple charts to prove that. And if people dont like misinformation they should flag it and dislike it bc no one needs that stuff to spread. Its like if youre a bad musician no one will want to see you except its blatantly avoiding the real facts thats the problem.
Thank you so much for this
I've seen a LOT of Last Week Tonight shows, and I don't know if I ever got this close to crying...
does anybody else find it sad that we get better news from this guy once a week then we get from the mainstream media everyday
I will always get my news from independent sources... they do proper research!
@FeatherFiend vote green party! Especially if you're in a non-swing state where one presidential vote likely won't change much. They need 5% of the vote to get access to federal funding, so your vote will mean something.
@FeatherFiend careful which district your in. That vote may help lead to trump getting reelected. I agree with you but in this situation, getting that racist, sexist, uninformed, grifter out of office is the priority
Yes
@FeatherFiend same actually lol
They aren’t closed systems, as all those workers travel home at the ends of shift. My mom works in a prison. As soon as the “masks aren’t necessary” statement came out, the workers daily PPE was pulled and locked up.
If they were closed systems, how did the virus get in in the first place? ...smh
the usa are such a sad place to live (and die) :-/
Wow! I hope they're not going to punish those who provide their own PPE....the whole attitude of the prisons is dehumanizing.
When did the 'masks aren't necessary' statement come out? It shouldn't be legal for businesses (which is what prisons are) to endanger their workers and others.
How disgusting our country is
Everyone supporting capitalism, this is what happens when private companies run prisons or any business for that matter. Profits over responsibility.
I'm crying. This is so sad.
We should be depopulating jails even without coronavirus. Nobody should have to rot in jail just because they couldn't afford bail. And poverty definitely shouldn't be a death sentence. Kudos to john for speaking up for those that are deliberately out of sight and out of mind.
Absolute facts right here
I mean cuckservatives are trying to depopulate jails and low income neighborhoods. They are just doing it via genocide, be that opioids (still no pharma boss dead), prison for jaywalking or just shooting people in the street.
After watching this, I started questioning why bail exists. It appears that everyone who is eligible for bail has been deemed to be a low risk to the public, but apparently only the rich deserve to get out while waiting for sentencing.
Renee the idea way back in the day was that you wouldn’t run from court knowing they had your life savings, but it’s changed since then now it more than what someone has so they have to use bail places that are awful, but a lot of county’s like mine use pr bond a lot that requires no money
You're basically asking to decriminalize drugs, and slow down on municipal violations. City budgets won't like that so taxes will go up.