Jamie Fellner
Jamie Fellner
Jamie Fellner is Senior Counsel for the United States Program of Human Rights Watch. The U.S. Program focuses on human rights violations within the United States. From 2004-2009 she also served on the U.S. National Prison Rape Elimination Commission...
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U.S. meat and poultry employers put workers at predictable risk of serious physical injury even though the means to avoid such injury are known and feasible, ... In doing so, they violate the right of workers to a safe place of employment.
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You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.
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An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.
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Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.
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The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.
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I've been doing prison monitoring for many years, and the consistency of the complaints indicates that there was a serious problem at Jena, ... Just about every inmate who was interviewed said they saw someone else abused, or were abused themselves.
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These men were victims of a Justice Department that was willing to do an end-run around the law. Criminal suspects are treated better than these material witnesses were.
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Working conditions in U.S. meat and poultry plants should trouble the conscience of every American who eats beef, pork or chicken,
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Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.