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Agolia Moore was shocked to get a call telling her that her son was found dead in an Alabama prison of a suspected drug overdose.
So they killed him.
In America. I thought i was done being shocked at or prisons but killing and harvesting organs (ostensibly for someone rich)... Fuuuuck we need to start eating rich people like... now.
China has been doing this for years. We're just playing catch up in the Horrible Things Olympics.
SCOTUS is making us more China every day.
USA! USA!
Right, it seems exactly like this.
oh man i would be PISSSED if i got an organ transplant and it turned out to be from an alabaman
This is worse. It's not even for transplantation. It's so medical students can dissect them.
The lawsuits also state that a group of UAB medical students in 2018 became concerned that a disproportionate number of the specimens they encountered during their medical training originated from people who had died in prison. They questioned if families of incarcerated people had the same ability as other patients' families to request that organs be returned with the body.
I am all for medical students being able to study real human organs. That's what voluntary donors are for.
It’s weird to me they are suing the department of corrections. (Which I’m sure is guilty of plenty of other crimes…) But if the autopsies are state ordered, and performed at UAB, seems like they should sue them instead.
If it's for medical student use, I'm not sure I'd say it was worse. I'm more apt to believe the deaths aren't suspect if this is the case, versus the organs being used in transplants. There's a lot of money and motive for corruption with transplants. But it's also probably an easy jump from harvesting organs without consent to give to med schools to them doing it for money and transplants. It's all bad.
I guess it's worse to me because if it's giving a dying person an organ, at least their life is prolonged. I realize training doctors saves lives too though.
Remember that we have no idea what's actually happening here. The prison officials would and do lie about everything. We can assume that all the missing organs were for medical research. We can assume the returned organs were actually that person's organs. But we just don't know. This is par for the course with the "justice" system.
This also makes it that much harder to determine actual cause of death.
I suspect that is part of it too.
What is this? A rimworld colony?
No, they seem to still have skin. But watch to make sure the warden doesnt have any new leather hats.
They also still have meat, skulls and blood; unlike my dead prisoners.
What is this? Death Warrant (the 1990 prison action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme)?
With help from Priest and Hawkins, Burke breaks into the infirmary and finds several boxes labeled "medical waste" that are actually full of human organs.
Alabama pulling slightly ahead in the "terrible prison system" contest, but I have faith that one of our other garbage states (esp Texas or Tennessee) will do something just as shocking any minute.
You must have missed this the other day.
Saw it. That's why I'm all-in on Texas being a leader in failing so badly.
I read the title, and it left me thinking it was about Ukrainian POWs returned from Russia without their organs, like I read about recently.
It seems the US does not even need such circumstances.
My body is already being donated. If everyone did that, the profit would disappear, and the internal body parts would not.
The wardens tell me that meat is expensive and prisoners gotta eat.
The fact that things like this happen in the US shows how corrupt lawmakers and the judiciary have become.
In the US, if you don't have money, your life is worthless, according to lawmakers and the courts. And, according to the latest Supreme Court decision signed off on by hypocritical Christian Amy Coney Barret, you can be a criminal just because of being poor: yep, that's what fake imaginary jesus would have definitely wanted.
She obviously doesn't believe the bible fairy-tale on some level or she wouldn't have agreed with the ruling.
Here is her disgusting hypocrisy on full-blast, the supposed Christian, ruling as jesus would, that the poor are criminals for sleeping: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf. (She did not write it, but as a Pro-life in all cases Christian, the hypocrisy is fucking astounding.)
It's unbelievably disgusting. Even if she knows jesus is fake, it's cruel and evil. I am mentioning this case because it sets the tone for how people are treated in the US. If a poor person can be locked up for being unable to stay awake, of course they can pull organs out from a criminal without permission. Why not? They can do anything they want until global warming finally comes with its revenge, destroying the planet for the idiocy of the upper-class selfish myopic morons who demand it with their selfishness.