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This is disgusting. Even in Ad Seg in a Texas prison, with the most violent schizophrenic inmates, you can't be handcuffed to a bed. To treat people like this

• 9999px 6y ago
  …that doesn't mean they don't. Pregnant women are routinely handcuffed while giving birth. If you want to see the peak in inhumane treatment of prisoners, go to any American prison south of the Mason–Dixon. Forced feeding, solitary confinement, executions, no foreign investigations (the US won't let the UN inspect American prisons), single-ingredient dietary plans as punishment – I've seen a lot of it working with a local prison abolitionist group for the last few years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/shackled-pregnant-women-prisoners-birth https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/shackled-pre... https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/rikers-inmate-with-covid-19-dies-while-handcuffed-to-a-bed https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/rikers-inmate-with-co... https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/working-prison-i-witnessed-inhumane-conditions-solitary https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinem... https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/force-feeding-prison-supermax-torture/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/force-feeding-pris...