U.N. watchdogs call for probe of Taser assaults in U.S. jails

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by em2nought

I guess we should defer to the experts. Must be all unicorns and rainbows in the rest of the world.

^ Only deviates from the problem. If you speak and think of yourself as the free world, the next best thing to sliced bread, defining standards for others, you have to accept to be measured by those

Of course it will still be better than any prison in, say, Turkey, or meanwhile Hungary and Poland. But the UN supervises the standards and rules, the free world and you yourself set once, for a civilised world. Should they really shut up?

Having said that, apart from the various public and private prisons, every country has those cellars with the white tiles and chains, to be used by their secret services. There is no rule or insight when it comes to that.