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Entire Life in Jail; UN Barred from US Prisons; New Jobs not Worth Prisoners’ Lives

Friday, July 24, 2015 13:13
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A Life Behind Bars. Nearly every UN-affiliated country has signed and ratified a treaty which recognizes that sentencing minors to life in prison is a human rights violation – except the United States. However, a Supreme Court decision could change everything for juvenile prisoners in the US.

 

U.N. Remains Barred from Visiting U.S. Prisons Amid Abuse Charges. When U.S. President Barack Obama visited the El Reno Correctional Facility in Oklahoma last week to check on living conditions of prisoners incarcerated there, no one in authority could prevent him from visiting the prison.

 

Why New Jobs Are Not Worth the Price of Prisoners’ Lives. Sen. Dick Durbin, an outspoken critic of solitary confinement, is supporting the opening of a high-security prison in Illinois, which would essentially double the number of federal prisoners held in isolation.

 

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