May 09 2004

Will it ever end?

Published by Fence under Current Affairs, Honk

Been doing the blog-rounds and on Crooked Timber they quote from an article in the New York Times, about how the man who trained the American guards at the Abu Gharib prison was forced to resign from his position as director of the Utah Department of Corrections after a prisoner died having been strapped, naked, to a restraining chair and left for 16 hours.
The article is full of stories of prisoner abuse in American prisons, such as “in Texas, [where] guards were allowing inmate gang leaders to buy and sell other inmates as slaves for sex”

Current track: Angel of Death by Thin Lizzy

Tags: Abu Gharib, Crooked Timber, torture

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