'Faster, faster, get that product out the door!' is the industry byword, ... The results are cuts, amputations, skin disease, permanent arm and shoulder damage, and even death from the force of repeated hard cutting motions. When injured employees seek workers' compensation claims for their juries, they are told, 'You got hurt at home, not on the job.'

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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.

148

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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The fact [the U.S. Supreme Court] took this up signals a growing recognition that they have an issue they're going to have to deal with.

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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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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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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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The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit.

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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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