Before you go making these kinds of claims, perhaps you should talk with the people left behind in a murderer’s wake. I have, twice. Once in college, a quasi-roommate who spoke at length about it, indeed he was nearly tortured by it. Another time to a friend of my wife’s, in a far more abbreviated way. Their lives are forever changed, and not in a good way. No holiday goes by without regret. No wedding is attended. No phone calls. Nothing, ever. Shouldn’t that count, too?

Since I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Mike, why are you talking in such a condescending way to me? I'll tell you why. It's because you are an arrogant prick who needs to be told to go fuck off periodically, who need your crap? Especially this: Before you go making these kinds of claims, perhaps you should talk with the people left behind in a murderer’s wake. But first - FUCK RIGHT OFF GOOFYHOOFY! Yes - strip down, bend over, and kiss your ass.

So I've talked to former prisoners in both the US and the PI. The US has much better conditions in prison than the PI, generally. as the vary by location in both places. In the PI you have a good chance of sleeping on a concrete floor with another prisoners legs draped over you due to lack of room. You get used to the smell of body order after a few days and no longer notice it. Make sure you get your share of rice and you can trade fish for cigarettes if you smoke. Stay on the good side of PI prison folk, because they'll send 10 guys after you if you get uppity. In the US you'll likely have your own bunk and while the food is tasteless there's no lack of it. You still have to stay on folks good sides.

As for those left behind? The family unit is much tighter in the Philippines, the grandparents take the kids and the Mom goes and works, sending money home to the Grandparents. I dated quite a few women who were raised that way, the men tend not to talk about it. Either Dad was murdered or Dad was the murderer. In the USA the family units aren't tight and you could end up in a foster home, or adapted by a good Christian couple.

It's some kind of arrogance you got there that you decide to lecture people who you don't know about things they never said. FUCK OFF!