GENEVA, Sept 29 — UN human rights experts have called for major reforms of the US criminal justice system to combat systemic racism, citing testimonies that jailed Black women...
GENEVA, Sept 29 — UN human rights experts have called for major reforms of the US criminal justice system to combat systemic racism, citing testimonies that jailed Black women had been shackled during childbirth while male inmates were forced to work in “plantation-style” conditions.
The US 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.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 UN rights spokesperson referred to “several” cases and confirmed they all involved Black women.
It described the stories from the so-called ‘Angola’ facility as “shocking” and said they amounted to “contemporary forms of slavery”. It also voiced alarm at the widespread use of solitary confinement, which it said appeared to be applied disproportionately to inmates of African descent. “Our findings point to the critical need for comprehensive reform,” said one of the experts, Juan Mendez.
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