Wu explains that what he wants to discuss is not the prison system but his discovery on reaching America that even those sentenced to death still need to be treated as people, let alone the hundreds of thousands of people in the mainland camps who are there for perhaps no other crime than having unorthodox beliefs.
吳弘達總要耐著性子解釋，他要討論的不是監獄制度，而是他到了美國才發現「即便是死刑犯也是人，執刑之前也需要被以人的態度對待」的觀念；更何況成千上萬的勞改犯，可能只是犯了信仰不同的「罪」。