The following is from a reader who shared his experience of his time in jail with the WSWS. The US government hypocritically derides other countries’ criminal justice systems on humanitarian grounds and lauds itself as the champion of freedom throughout the world while in its jails and prisons nightmarish abuses and inhumane conditions are rife- thousands die in state and federal prisons every year. for failing to provide medication on time, or at all, despite medical orders from health providers. Last month, we reported on three inmates who are suing Central Detention Facility and the Correctional Treatment Facility (D.C. Joshua McLemore, an inmate in Indiana in the throes of schizophrenia, died of dehydration and malnutrition in 2021 after spending 20 straight days in solitary confinement. Lashawn Thompson was found dead in his cell, his body riddled with sores and bug bites in a Georgia jail last September. In April, we published the story of two inmates who died barbaric deaths while in jail.
In March, we wrote about Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Kenyan émigré, who was killed by police while being admitted into a hospital after he had been jailed for suffering a mental health crisis and been denied his medication for three days. The World Socialist Web Site has reported on a recent slew of atrocities committed by authorities in US jails that have come to light this year. With more than four times more people than the US, China comes in second with 1.5 million people locked up. According to the World Population Review, the US prison population is over 2 million and makes up 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country in the world.
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