So yesterday when we left NAR, we walked to the main road to catch a minibus taxi home, when we both heard loud chanting. I looked up and first saw a group of men standing around and got a little nervous because I wasn't sure if they were about to riot. Then I noticed a huge dump truck coming down the road, with one guy in tan standing above the cabin of the truck, and other men sitting on the edge of the bed of the truck, all of whom were dressed in pink... Pink = prisoners... (They say that they use the color to make the men stand out in case they escape, but I think it's just to de-masculinize them). Apparently the man standing up top was carrying a huge AK-47, which I didn't notice and I'm quite glad that I didn't, because guns aren't exactly my thing.
The whole scene was just surreal... these men could have easily jumped off the truck if they really wanted to, although the guy with the gun probably would have open-fired, and then chaos could have ensued... It's just so different from the US, where prisoners are locked away and kept from the rest of society (for the most part).
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