institutional abuse, neurodivergence, prisons
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67663128
"Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who is autistic, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$. [...] He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger. The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage."
What the actual fuck??
Like, to be absolutely clear, "secure hospital" means "prison". It is not primarily a place of care, but one of isolation.
re: institutional abuse, neurodivergence, prisons
For additional clarity:
This is a life sentence. It doesn't matter that they framed it as a 'hospital order'. It's a life sentence of imprisonment, with hypothetical parole. For something that apparently wasn't even bad enough to give their co-conspirator a severe sentence.
And life sentences are effectively a death penalty with torture attached.
They sentenced an autistic person to a life sentence with torture attached at 18, primarily for disrupting corporate operations, and because said person has anger outbursts, most likely from trauma. That is what this is.
