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Prisons: life behind bars

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In France, one prisoner commits suicide every three days. FRANCE 24 went behind the scenes of this hidden world to bring you previously unseen footage of punishment cells. Our reporter met both prisoners and guards.

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ww iii

by Anonyme - 13/03/2010 - 17:21

update on WW III

Hello people of the world, in april or may of 2009 the Cuba president declare war on the U S, China, & Venezuela. People of the world we all need to help one another and stand up against Cuba. We are in World War III, the Cuban's declared. They are consentrating on our world leaders and ranking officers so that they can't protect the people from Cuba. The cuban army will
write down what he can say and that's all he is allowed to do. So please pass the message along in writting so it gets to all the people. Cuba needs to be bomded off the face of the map. Cuba's messages by way of sub lingal messages to our army's of
english speaking countries' will make our officer's wait for your commanders written orders, which will never get to them because of their sub lingal messages. Most of the foreign speaking countries' leaders can't speak their own language, then at
night they just beat them and during the day. sub lingal messages are against the law in the US. The US is not the one putting them over a map. only cuba is. the Geneva convention is for all the counties of the world an cuba doesn't obey any of those laws.

ps: do you know most of the people are to beaten to speak because of Cuba's concentration war. Including the other leaders of different countries. Please don't listen to those sub lingal messages that Cuba is using on your country. Please inform as many people as possible to act in their peoples' behalf and bomb cuba.

help me please

by Anonyme - 05/03/2010 - 05:41

i can understand why these people commit suicide in french prisons.my husband has been in prison in prison in france for 5yrs now and every day i wait for the prison to call me that he is dead because he is so very depressed and every day it is the same story when he asks the gaurds when will he be released.wait is there answer.to be honest with u i feel like commiting suicide myself because i have done this sentence along with him.is the french goverment not ashamed off themselfs.because if they were in london they would get compassion.u no that word that gives somebody a little kick in there life that there is people in france with a heart.somebody help me please iv had enough and iam innocent.much opliged maria makroz.

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