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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    The headline says “jail” but the article only refers to cases in prisons. I know the entire criminal justice system is messed up, but did this UN study specifically find both jails and prisons to be severely repressive and racist?

    This is an important distinction because jail is where people wait pre-trail, meaning they typically have not yet been found to be guilty of the charges brought against them, while prison is where people who have been charged, found guilty and sentenced to prison will go. Jail is where a cop that decides to arrest someone for dubious reasons will take them, whether that’s enforcing an unconstitutional law (such as flag desecration laws which is protected speech under federal caselaw), findings from a blatantly illegal search, or even they arrested the wrong person because they went to the wrong address to execute a warrant, or any number of other reasons

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    Unfortunately a lot of americans like it just the way it is. Nothing’s going to get better without a lot of time, or a lot of conservatives ending up in the ground

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    Americans have no dignity, and they place no value on human life… it’s not a surprise…

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      “Americans bad…very bad…Bad boys. All of ‘em…just all of them are the same…surprisingly this totally doesn’t reflect my own beliefs in any way….”

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        you’re a child, just like all Americans… you want an excuse for your lack of dignity… your absolute inability to even conceive of it…

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          It takes a special lack of awareness to make these kinds of sweeping prejudiced statements against a group of people on a post about racism.

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            your attempts to avoid the reality and excuse yourself are predictable, and limited to the realm of social media… you are social media beings… dignity is something you must aspire to, and then express… you can’t demand it out of fairness…

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              I’m not commenting to support your approach to this, but your comment about dignity hit home for me. I’m an American who recently traveled to Scandinavia for the first time. There is something wholly different about the feel of the culture over there, even in mundane everyday details. I was seeing levels of dignity and respect (for self as well as others) that I am NOT used to here.

              Over here I’m used to pride, competition, and indifference to the plight of others.

              Over there I observed dignity, cooperation, and well, dignity.

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          Does your paintbrush extend to the incarcerated black Americans who are victims of the policies observed by the UN, or do you mean a specific subset of Americans when you say these things?

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              I can’t ask all of them, so I asked one, and he said that he’s no less American because he’s in jail.

              So back to my question?

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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…

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              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.

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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…

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                  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.

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      Oh good, a pompous, nonsensical, deeply condescending, deliberately inflammatory, provincial and unhelpful comment! That’s just what we need, said no one, ever.

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        dignity and indignation aren’t necessarily the same thing… you are demonstrating how that is the case…