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]
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
Prison population is ridiculously high in America too.
25% of the world’s prison population despite being under 5% in the world’s total population, which is arguably insane.
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.
Primarily because slavery is so damn lucrative and the prison industrial complex regulatory capture makes the corn lobby look quaint.