You keep shifting your arguments around.
"Save the Children"
So it's no longer about political prisoners (I assume you think Assange is one), but about children?
"we happily send billions of dollars to a country"
Who is we? You have sent billions of dollars to the US? I haven't.
I thought the article was about Russia, why exactly are we talking about the US prison system now? What is the goal? Making the Russian Gulag look good? Improving the US prison system?
I've campaigned against the US prison system with AI. Did you? If you didn't, it's simply Whataboutism.
Whataboutism has one goal, and one goal alone: Deflect criticism.
"I'm not pro-Russia"
You're words tell a different story.
"morally superior."
Straw man argument.