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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39418731

Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]

Solitary Confinement

Critics of solitary confinement regard the practice as a form of psychological torture with measurable physiological effects, particularly when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely.[92][93][94][75]

The United Nations Committee Against Torture cited use of solitary confinement in the United States as excessive and a violation of the Convention Against Torture in 2014.[95]

It followed the little-reported 2016 US Prison Strike

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[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Remember that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where it establishes that the corrupt warden was ruining local businesses because he had no labor overhead costs when deploying prisoners all over town to do project work? And then the local businesses started bribing him to stay away from their livelihoods so that they wouldn't go bankrupt?

Same as modern times: except, it's 10,000 times larger in scale now, and the smaller businesses can no longer afford the bribes. But that's okay, because the government stepped in to pay instead.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Prisoner's rights are human rights.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Prison population is ridiculously high in America too.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

slavery in America never ended, it just got a rebrand

It didn't even rebrand. The 13th amendment may have abolished chattel slavery, but it specifically retained carceral slavery (“except as punishment for a crime“). Becau$e.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

25% of the world's prison population despite being under 5% in the world's total population, which is arguably insane.

Primarily because slavery is so damn lucrative and the prison industrial complex regulatory capture makes the corn lobby look quaint.