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US prisons rife with human rights abuses, especially against Black people, UN says (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/usnews

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Practices that are routine in U.S. prisons, like shackling women during childbirth and unpaid forced labor, are an “affront to human dignity,” and represent the “worst version of a racist criminal legal system” that perpetuates slavery to the present day, according to the U.N. report.

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[–] Plume 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they say it like it's a mistake. Like US prisons happens to have those things happen but... I mean... hey, UN, you ever heard the phrase "it's not a bug, it's a feature"?