Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine (Ashcroft & Iraq prison head)

[TacticalPeek]

Josh Marshall points to the Crisco connection in this article.

Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S.
By FOX BUTTERFIELD

Published: May 8, 2004


Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates.

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The experts also point out that the man who directed the reopening of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year and trained the guards there resigned under pressure as director of the Utah Department of Corrections in 1997 after an inmate died while shackled to a restraining chair for 16 hours. The inmate, who suffered from schizophrenia, was kept naked the whole time.

The Utah official, Lane McCotter, later became an executive of a private prison company, one of whose jails was under investigation by the Justice Department when he was sent to Iraq as part of a team of prison officials, judges, prosecutors and police chiefs picked by Attorney General John Ashcroft to rebuild the country's criminal justice system.

Mr. McCotter, 63, is director of business development for Management & Training Corporation, a Utah-based firm that says it is the third-largest private prison company, operating 13 prisons. In 2003, the company's operation of the Santa Fe jail was criticized by the Justice Department and the New Mexico Department of Corrections for unsafe conditions and lack of medical care for inmates. No further action was taken.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08PRIS.html?hp

[the Kelly Gang]

1. and they cannot understand why Iraqis now considering killing

members of the Allies is routine to them..as the 4 hapless 'contractors' found.

If nothing else, these torturers and those that support them , ie: the freepers and apologists back in the USA, put their own soldiers at deadly risk.

[Pallas180]

2. R21 Torture techniques were taught to US Soldiers -Rum knows!

Please read this article from the UK Guardian re: R21 torture
techniques Brits taught to our special forces.Dont tell me Rumsfeld didnt know about this. He continues to lie to Congress, the American people and the world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1212197,00.html

Please make it public.
The neo-cons have to be routed out of our government.
We dont even recognize America anymore!

E mail your local paper and cable news station

the lies are incredible

[Dover]

4. Well if he's lying at least he is under oath. Should anyone care to

provide some evidence that he knew or that contradicts other elements of his testimony he's a dead duck.

[emulatorloo]

6. Let Me Sum Up - tell me if I have it right

Systematic set of humiliation/torture techniques aka R21 taught to British and US special ops in Britain so they could resist if captured and receive R21

Bush-selected private firms in Iraq hire lots of former Special Ops to be in charge of interrogation.

Former Special Ops tell soldiers who work in prison what to do to prisoners, that is, use R21 techniques.

[saigon68]

9. You got it right

[truthisfreedom]

3. and?

now we will see digital photographs and videos from inside American prisons?

[radfringe]

5. saddam's torture chamber may have been closed

but it has re-opened under new management

left side 1/4 way down the page --> http://radicalfringe.freeservers.com/

[Mountainman]

7. This kind of blows the "few bad apples" defense

[maddezmom]

8. :kick:

not surprising to learn the asscrack is involved...masochist SOB. Hey but don't forget to cover up or hide all the naked statues