The lawsuit, filed by Pregnancy Justice on behalf of McElroy and her daughter, further claims that medical staff gave her only a diaper and Tylenol while she endured severe pain and worried about the safety of her baby.
According to the complaint, another inmate eventually assisted McElroy in delivering a baby girl who was not breathing when she was born on the prison floor, as prison guards watched. The filing says two women housed in the same pod attempted to revive the newborn by removing mucus from her mouth and rubbing her until she finally cried.
The complaint also alleges that, after the delivery, a guard told the women: “Y’all should’ve pushed that motherfucking baby back in” and punished the women on the cell block, prohibiting them from going outside and to religious services, and revoking phone privileges.
Even people who fully support tough prison systems should be able to agree this is the kind of thing that makes a country look morally broken.
Seeing lots of dehumanizing wording here. I think it is important to acknowledge that this behaviour - as disgusting as it is - is very very very human. Humans who abuse other humans under the excuse of being the better humans because morals each group uses for themselves to justify dehumanizing the other group. only if we are aware of how the human condition is affecting how we approach the world can we find a way to make this world a place that holds hope for those who are not in power! Also: pigs are great creatures that dont display antisocial behaviour like seen here.
McElroy, who was being held on charges stemming from an allegation of substance use during pregnancy
“You’ve been accused of potentially harming your baby, so we’re going to deny you medical care to make sure of it!”
Fucking barbaric. Every single one of the law enforcement personnel involved ought to be [redacted].
Allow me. “Fucking barbaric. Every single one of the law enforcement personnel involved ought to be executed.”
Yeah this ain’t Meta we can be as specific as we want
Praise the Omnissiah!
Every pig ever they’re all like thus they just don’t all show it
I’d bet those guards consider themselves pro life
I bet they’d beat a woman to death for having an abortion
They’d beat a pregnant women to death for trying to get an abortion
They punished the other women who helped with the birth, so yeah.
Conclusion: That was the plan, and they ruined it.
And deeply christian
As my mother used to say, deep as the deepest one. Never much cared for calling people or things satanic, but she loved it for a minute
…Cthulu?
Yep, and their pro life stance includes babies with multiple women, who are left to take care of the resulting children on their own while being judged for maintaining a ‘broken home’ by these very same fucks.
And also the father.
The prison system needs to be abolished
It’s built to dehumanize the inmates. Capitalism can’t function without it and until it is burnt to the ground, it’ll keep happening.
What are your thoughts on reforming it to the level of the Norweigen system instead of abolishing in an absolute sense?
I’d like to hear an argument as to why that, combined with abolishing capitalism in favor of a system that prioritizes mutual aid, such as anarchism, wouldn’t work, especially when it comes to violent criminals or power seekers/exploiters.
It would be up to the community. If anything anarchism is the only form of government that is resistant to bad actors “taking it over” because it would just result in what is essentially a village cult while the sane communities cut ties with them. There cannot be a permanent council or alliance of communities that govern their spheres of influence or else you aren’t really practicing anarchism as you’ve just built an unnecessary hierarchy.
Edit: but to clarify, the community would ultimately choose how to deal with these members. Whatever method, good or bad, that may be.
Start over from scratch do not reform if you still think you need something and you might be surprised at how little you need except one death camp for all the old advocates of it and I bey we could have that run by robots on llm’s and a few land mines
“Lets abolish power structures by creating a power structure.”
Makes sense.
Came here to say it. Glad to find it said. Everyone’s rights are threatened by this.
No I think weshpuld keep one death camp for all of it’s enforcers and advocates I don’t want to live in a world with that scu m they need to die
To abolish something you must be rid of it in its entirety.
We can phase that last one out but that us the only reason Im against abolishing I don’t want anyone else kept there like how I think if you think we should have slavery its totally okay to slap shackles on you and use you like a work animal a world in which many worlds are possible means letting others live by their own ethics
This is what republicans mean by “protecting women”
America really has a way of making you a misanthrope. Disgusting demons purposely put in positions of power.
Apparently, the bedrock limit of my opinion of humanity has another bedrock.
Pigs are inhuman monsters in skin suits do not talk only kill
Thats… Maybe a new depth of just how traumatic of experiences we as humans can subject eachother to…
Holy fucking Christ man.
She was afraid she was going to die on the floor and never see her other children again.
Which is a legit concern, birth is a major medical event with possible complications galore even if it goes well, and literally an emergency in many cases. Women die during childbirth all the time even with the best care.
New depth? If this is a peak for you in how aweful humans can be to their own, leave it at that and stop looking.
You have never worked with populations targeted by police this is pretty normal for them it just doesn’t happen to straight cis white women with housing very often I’ve seen worse this calendar month on three separate occasions this is literally every cop I won’t even tell you my stpry
Yeah thats fair, our system sucks shit and its a common problem that horrible things only get coverage when they happen to cis/hetero-normative white people, but does horrific shit to poor minorities all the time without anyone hearing about it :(
I don’t work in social work and fortunately none of my friends are without housing, so its not something I’d hear about happening to people
Every pig is like this they’re not human
That deputy whining that they’d fire her for helping is in no way qualified to work with prisoners or anyone vulnerable.
America is riddled with inhuman scum.
No one ever seriously says Sweet Home Alabama
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Lock those fuckers up and throw away the keys
Uh oh. She’s white.
Unnecessarily divisive
NP its why we heard about relatively mild pig behavior like it didn’t even rape her after
1 month old account, comment history is nothing but angry vitriol… with a lotta use of the word “pig”
I hope you’re a troll, cause otherwise I really think you should get some help. Nobody needs to hang on to so much anger like that. Best wishes friend
Sire thing officer
