Naçi

Last night, Kurt and I went out with a friend of ours from camp, Naçi, and got to nkow more about him. Naçi is an example of how the legal system here doesn't believe that you're innocent until proven guilty, but the opposite; You are guilty until proven innocent. if you are accused of a crime here, they will throw you straight into prison and then start investigating; Basically they shame you and ruin your life whether you committed the crime or not. Naçi spent a year in prison for a crime he didn't commit. What struck me is what the prisons are like here. They're run by the mafia, and in Naçi's case, the prison was literally owned by the mafia. They don't feed you and they don't really give you anything. The idea is that they will break you down enough to pay them to either get out or enough to live better. He was talking about how his family would bring him food and then the inventions they had in order to cook it. He said they would take somehting like a pipe cleaner and a piece of wood and stick one end in an outlet and the other in a pot of water to heat it up for soup, and then some other invention to make coffee with. He was talking about the good things about it though; how he realized who his real friends were by who supported him, and that no one cares for you like your parents. He also talked about reading Paul's letters and how he could relate to being in prison without committing a crime and how that helped him get through his time there. He's a pretty cool guy with lots of stories, but that one struck me the most, so I thought I would share it.