It would help if the U.S. had a leg to stand on; the official numbers point to us having higher incarceration per capita; and both the public perception and medical statistics point to rape being expected in prison.
Little and low quality food so that sheriffs could take the money https://www.al.com/opinion/2018/03/49_alabama_sheriffs_flout...
Widespread prison rape https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-sh...
Prisons under staffed and over crowded https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-07-26/...
Widespread use of solitary confinement https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/04/20/solitary-co...
Chemical Castration in at least 8 states https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alabama-passes-bill-requiri...
I think it is important to keep the sense of proportion, things can be bad and require urgent action without being the worst. And saying things like: Trump is Hitler or human right violations in US are comparable to China do not help anyone. It just downplays the seriousness of the worst case and make the bad case look good.
China isn't waging war all over the world, so America is the worst case scenario right now.
We aren't the worst for human rights violations. But, it's not acceptable that sexual assault is a legitimate threat to the extent that it's the butt of every prison joke.
We don't have to be the worst to realize we need to fix our problems; but there are clearly people in this thread that are unaware of the issues.
But the bad things a country did do not reduce its right of truthfully pointing out bad things other countries are doing.
And why are you going back 200 years? Internment camps happened in the 40s and forced sterilization + syphylis guided as experiments happened into the 1980s... To free people, citizens even.
No; which is why I phrased it the way I did. This doesn't change the perception though because the U.S. stands out in the developed world of numbers we can trust.
Legally, do they belong there, "many" of them have been sentenced by a jury or judge; though often not with a jury thanks to aggressive plea bargaining.
Do the prisons also have a legal obligation to protect prisoners from undue harm like rape?
But it also points to issues in our legal system. When the per capita number of warrants in Ferguson is > 1.5. When 3 strike laws and mandatory minimums lead to life in prison for non-violent offenders.
But also, if 4% of death row inmates are innocent; do we suppose that number is higher or lower for lesser sentences? for those that took plea deals? For those where the police have been corrupt.
https://www.newsweek.com/one-25-executed-us-innocent-study-c...