February 14, 2008

Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons


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Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

By Deborah Davies

They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.

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Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Savaged By Dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals
Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
Channel4
Produced and Directed By Nick London
Reporter Deborah Davies
March 2005
http://www.frif.com/new2005/brut.html
http://www.november.org/ stayinfo...TortureInc.html

The Use of Dogs for Cell Extractions in U.S. Prisons
October 11, 2006

Arizona training video showing how dogs were used for cell extractions. Unlike other states, in Arizona once the dog had a hold of the prisoner, the officers would pull on the dog’s leash and drag the dog and the prisoner, gripped by the dog's jaws, out of the cell.
Video provided to Human Rights Watch by the Arizona Department of Corrections. In late 2005, the director of the department issued a moratorium on the use of dogs for cell extractions. In March 2006, the moratorium was made permanent with a new rule prohibiting the use of dogs for this purpose.
http://hrw.org/campaigns/us/2006...s1006/ index.htm
(RealPlayer Presentation)
rtsp://humanrw.rmod.llnwd.net/a434/o2/2006/ AttackDogs/MAPrison512.rm

Video of a cell extraction with a dog in a Massachusetts prison provided to Human Rights Watch by attorneys for the inmate. According to the attorney, the inmate was mentally ill. In April 2006 the commissioner of the Department of Correction prohibited the use of dogs for cell extractions.
http://hrw.org/campaigns/us/2006...s1006/ index.htm
(RealPlayer Presentation)
rtsp://humanrw.rmod.llnwd.net/a434/o2/2006/ AttackDogs/MAPrison512.rm

This archive contains articles by Reader staff writer John Conroy, who has been covering police torture and related issues since 1990.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/pol...m/ policetorture

Cruel and Degrading
The Use of Dogs for Cell Extractions in U.S. Prisons
Human Rights Watch
October 2006
http://hrw.org/reports/2006/us1006
(PDF Document)

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/ us10...06webwcover.pdf

Republican senator says US prisons best in the world
June 05, 2005

Charges of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib notwithstanding, a top US Republican senator on Sunday took pride in the US prison system, calling it the best managed in the world.

"It's very difficult to run a perfect prison anywhere, but the United States does that better than any other country in the world," Senate Republican Majority Whip Mitch McConnell said during his appearance on CNN's "Late Edition" program.

The senator was responding to charges by Amnesty International that since the beginning of the war on terror, the United States has created a system reminiscent of Soviet 'gulag' labor camps.

The United States runs the world largest prison system that houses more than 2.1 million inmates, according to the latest government statistics. That means that one in every 138 residents of the country is now behind bars.

http://www.politicalgateway.com/...ad.html? id=3942

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