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Photograph showing undressed prisoners appears on the web site of Amnesty International USA. The image of the prisoners has been obscured, here, to protect their privacy. |
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Ken Sanes Why is Amnesty International defending the rights of prisoners to be treated humanely by showing a photograph on its web site of prisoners without their clothes on? According to the caption, the photograph shows a "shakedown" or a "mass search for contraband items" in Ellis 1 Unit in Huntsville, Texas. The shakedown, or at least the portion we are privy to, has the prisoners being paraded undressed down a prison aisle while a group of guards, who look like they are out of a Smokey and the Bandit movie, stands by and watches. But, if we are to trust the caption, this is no movie and there is no reason to believe the prisoners gave anyone permission to turn them into human rights pin-ups on the Internet. So what about it, Amnesty International? How about the human right to not be exposed in public without consent?
Texas Spokesman Criticizes Apparent Photo of Undressed Prisoners |
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