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.

  • theodewere
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    it’s not possible to be xenophobic about Americans, they have no character… if you dislike Americans, it’s because you dislike blandness, not that you’re afraid of something you don’t understand…

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      That’s kinda like saying you can’t be racist against white people. You’re disparaging over 330 million people based on your hateful prejudices.

      • theodewere
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        see, you dodge the actual point, by claiming you’re being oppressed in some way… you’re all the same brand of coward…

        i say you are incapable of dignity, and you respond with whining… who is winning the argument…

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          You really need to work on that reading comprehension, buddy. It’s not whining to call someone a hateful bigot. Because, you are a hateful bigot.

          • @WilliamTheWicked
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            He… does have a point. I haven’t really seen anyone attack his premises, only the way he’s presented them. Our shanty towns grow larger and more numerous by the day it seems, along with injustices like that mentioned in the article. There are 330 million of us and we’re kinda letting this happen.

            That said… psh. We could still kick his ass?

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              He’s not, though. He’s asserting that the actions of our government reflect the will of the people, and that hasn’t been true for a very long time.

              America has a stupid amount of different cultures that influence the country, so saying we have no culture and don’t value human life is inaccurate.

              • @WilliamTheWicked
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                11 year ago

                So, the core of his argument is clearly just a troll’s attempt to get a rise out of everyone and I don’t really want to engage any further with it because I have places to be today.

                But what’s been bothering me lately is that many of us, myself included, are acting like these are things that are happening to us, as if we have no agency in the matter. Perhaps, at this point, we don’t. If the government isn’t addressing our wishes, why aren’t we fielding and voting for candidates that will?

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 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.

            • theodewere
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              i’ll have an order of tentative acknowledgement, with an ice cold glass of complaining about the tone of honesty, and a slice of bravado for dessert

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                  i’m gonna let you know when i need your opinion on that, sweetheart… but i appreciate it… i surely do… coming from your sweet ass…

                  but you are entirely correct if it seems like i’m not competing for this year’s Sweetheart Ribbon at the County Fair

          • theodewere
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            -31 year ago

            you try to shield yourself from all truth with claims of oppression or unfairness… it’s cowardly…

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              No, I’m just attempting to point out that you’re being a bigoted asshole. It’s no different than saying all Italians are spaghetti eating mobsters.

              You’re trying to disparage an entire population based on a rather bizarre and totally inaccurate preconceived notion.

              • theodewere
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                bizarre and totally inaccurate preconceived notion.

                you wish

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  Alright, what are you basing your claims on? You’re clearly not from the US, and I’d bet money you’ve never visited or even spoken at length in person to an American citizen.