Happy Rooms!

When I write this title, I guess a lot of you would think about a room in your houses or restaurants, hotels or somewhere else, right? But they're all wrong. Actually, I'm mentioning about rooms in prison. Yes, that's the point, why would in such places like that have happy rooms? What are they happy about? Just in Vietnam's prisons, you can find them. I remember I've watched many movies that had described how prisons in America, Iraq, Chinese,... are. Well, the first thought was awful! They have been treated like animals and have no human's right at all. They've been beaten by other prisoners and guards. But in Vietnam, things are very different. Even though someone has caused a very serious crime, but when they're in prisons, Vietnam's Government will give them opportunities to change. Prisoners will have works to do that depend on their abilities like women can do sewing, or knitting while men do carpentry works or building, or iron,... ect. And when they work hard on their jobs and observe the rules in prison well, they will get a chance to meet their wives/ husbands in the happy rooms. These rooms have been built up in prisons for about 20 years. Although, prisoners have no rights like a normal person, but still, they're human beings. They've done many cruel things out there, and they deserved to be in jails, that's fair. But on the other hand, they're not dead, so it means they still need love from their families. We believe after each meeting between prisoner and family in this happy room, they'll have more courage to continue to study and work harder in prison, till the day they're released and start all over again. I consider this is a very humanitarian action of our Government. Let's see how these rooms look like:

Each room has air-condition, private bathroom and toilet, television, bed with mattress,...like a normal room or even better. Of course no one would like to try this room but to prisoners, these rooms have big meanings to them and help them to live better, happier.

Actually, I'm about to write of another topic. But, when I read about this on the news, I've thinking about these happy rooms in prisons. And by this post, I really want all the prisons in the world maybe not as cruel as those movies I've watched. They deserve their crimes to be in jails, but they're still humans. Don't treat them like animals or even worse.

JennLe