American Abuse of Prisoners

Newly Released Reports Show Early Concern on Prison Abuse
By KATE ZERNIKE
The reports demonstrate that abuse involving service
branches in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba began in 2002 and
continued after the investigation of Abu Ghraib.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/politics/06abuse.html?th

Lest we forget, the same sort of things have been going on here in the continental U.S where we have been holding 200,000 'deportees' in administrative detention in for-profit private and county jails scattered mainly in the red states -- which collect $70.00 per head per diem. We have one such gulag in Brooklyn with 1,000 at last count per a report in Newsday late summer by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Paul Moses -- now teaching at Brooklyn College -- and another 200 in Queens being held as 'material witnesses'. What we are seeing in the published reports is all too often an extension of what has been the increasingly abusive treatment of prisoners in our own rurally located prisons where untrained guards switched over from outsourced blue collar jobs preside over mainly minorities plucked from our inner cities. One of the Abu Ghraib violators was previously doing the same things in our own Brooklyn gulag. How long will Americans put up with such conduct straight out of Texas? Or should one say Siberia and Bergen-Belsen? EAK