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Disease, Brutality, and Forced Labor in Uganda's Packed Prisons

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As Jonathan Vojir pointed out in the OpEdNews last week, in "Africa's 'Gay Question': Ghana Teeters On The Brink Of A Holocaust ...Just Like Uganda," there's no need to "hang the gays," as proposed in Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, to kill them. Confinement in a Ugandan prison will likely do, even if they're never convicted of the Ugandan crime of homosexuality. Fifty-six percent of Ugandan prisoners, who live in conditions of virtual slavery, have never been convicted of any crime, and may nevertheless die of disease, overwork, or violence before being freed.
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)
 

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