US jail practices are racist and an ‘affront to human dignity’, UN experts say
U.N. human rights experts have called for major reforms of the U.S. criminal justice system to combat systemic racism, saying jailed Black women had been shackled during childbirth while male inmates were forced to work in “plantation-style” conditions. In a report published on Thursday, three U.N.-appointed experts said they had found practices in U.S. prisons … Read more
