The U.S. has the highest child incarceration rate in the world...

[EarthFirst]

The U.S. has the highest child incarceration rate in the world, followed by Bolivia, Botswana and Sri Lanka, says a human rights lawyer who authored a new U.N. study on the treatment of children.

U.N. Expert Faults U.S. For 'Inhuman Treatment' And High Incarceration Of Children

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/780539163/u-n-expert-faults-u-s-for-inhuman-treatment-and-high-incarceration-of-children?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR3aeW6haSQPi2HeE43kpetwHc5zuR3YmUtflmSKP8ghzuf-Zjh3mspjZhI&fbclid=IwAR0fpdz_SfHY7drcI4aOSckN81-z26fWPypqcSbsPkRLdiDACV5fs8kCTYw

[RestoreAmerica2020]

1. This is stunning! Who wrote, 'you can tell the character of a country by the way it treats its

..children?'

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He added, "And there are still quite a number of children that are separated from their parents — and neither the children know where the parents are, nor the parents know where the children are. So that is something that definitely should not happen again."

Nowak said his team estimates that the U.S. is still holding more than 100,000 children in migration-related detention. [highlighted for emphasis]

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Decarcerate now.

[uponit7771]

3. Americans are good people, the problem is our system that gives PA too much power. The process ...

... becomes the punishment in 90% of those situations.

[nitpicker]

4. From DW

US holds over 100,000 migrant children in detention

https://www.dw.com/en/us-holds-over-100000-migrant-children-in-detention/a-51306242

US holds over 100,000 migrant children in detention

Date 19.11.2019

At least 330,000 children are held in detention because of migration issues worldwide, and the United States alone is responsible for nearly one-third of the number, UN-linked human rights lawyer Manfred Nowak said on Monday.

Nowak is the lead author of a new UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. According to his team's findings, the US currently has some 103,000 children in detention, which includes unaccompanied minors, those detained together with their families, and those who have been separated from their relatives.

The US government did not respond to the questionnaire sent out by Nowak's team. However, he said that the number was based on latest available official data and "very reliable" additional sources. Talking to the AFP news agency, he also said the figure of 103,000 was a "conservative" assessment.
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According to the findings, the US authorities hold "far more" children than any other country where reliable numbers are available, Nowak said. The US detains about 60 out of every 100,000 children both over migration and other issues, such as pre-trial detention, compared to between 14 and 15 in Canada and five in Western Europe.

The US also remains the only nation in the world not to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a UN treaty adopted in 1989.
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