On Friday 16 May 2008 8:34:36 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > And a spell in a US federal pen isn't fun (though, > admittedly, they're going to feel like the president's suite at a Marriott > compared to an Indian jail cell..)
Wrong. If you are an influential prisoner, you will have a comfortable bed, private toilet, cellphone, TV, cuisine of your choice, women and maybe even arms in an Indian cell. And you can stand for election. This is not praiseworthy, but to imagine that prisoners have a worse environment in Indian jails compared to US jails is forgetting they way things work for some people in India. Even prisoners. The same corruption that arrests "criminal tribes" for crimes they did not commit ensures that people with money get comforts in jail. shiv
