US jail practices are racist and an 'affront to human dignity,' UN experts say - eviltoast

In a report published on Thursday, three U.N.-appointed experts said they had found practices in U.S. prisons that amounted to “an affront to human dignity” in visits in April and May.

The U.S. diplomatic mission in Geneva declined to comment. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said it was committed to ensuring the safety and security of incarcerated individuals as well as employees and the public.

One such practice is restraining and shackling women prisoners during childbirth, the report said.

The experts “heard, first hand, unbearable direct testimonies of pregnant women shackled during labour, who due to the chaining, lost their babies”, it said. Asked to give details, a U.N. rights spokesperson referred to “several” cases and confirmed they all involved Black women.

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    1 year ago

    We really don’t have any agency. The federal government is set up so we’re stuck with elected officials until their time is up with no democratic way of removing them from office.

    The main problem is that the people who have the highest voter turnout are retirees whose brains are fucked from years of lead poisoning, and these same old fucks are also running the country.

    I mean, hell, just look at the 2016 election. The person with the most votes lost. That’s proof that the will of the people isn’t being honored even at the highest levels of government.