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| Brueghel's The Blind Leading the Blind |
Intro features a harmless-looking, scared young man walking into a jail filled with menacing-looking characters, one of whom suggestively alludes to the coming prison rape for the scared, young man.
But the kid calls Jimmy John's restaurant and a delivery saves the day.
Jimmy John's restaurant evidently believes the coming prison rape is funny.
And that America leading the world in its total prison population and rate of incarceration [Iran, Russia are pikers] is fodder for what it finds is an amusing lede-in to its commercials.
"Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences," notes Adam Liptak in a recent Times piece.
"The .... current American prison system, is a leviathan unmatched in human history," notes Glenn C. Loury in Boston Review.
That's fine with your local Jimmy John's restaurant. Rape is funny. Massive denial of liberty is equally amusing.
