Amnesty International accuses Arizona of abuse in prisons

[Ptah]

Source: Arizona Republic {Phoenix}

Arizona's state prisons overuse solitary confinement in cruel, inhumane and illegal ways,
particularly for mentally ill prisoners and juveniles as young as 14, the human-rights group
Amnesty International charges in a report to be released today.

According to the report, which is to be delivered to the governor and state lawmakers,
Arizona prisons use solitary confinement as a punishment more than most other states or the federal government.


The group found that some inmates are held in isolation for months and sometimes years, and it
called on the state to use the practice only as a last resort and only for a short duration.

In addition, it asked that the practice not be used against children or people who are mentally ill
or have behavioral disabilities. The group also called on state officials to improve conditions for
prisoners in solitary confinement and to act to reduce the high number of suicides in Arizona's prisons.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/04/02/20120402arizona-accused-abuses-prisons.html

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Stay classy, Arizona.

[secondwind]

1. All AZ needs is a shiny new "Tower" with some dungeons.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Typical treatment of prisoners in a Third World Country

with a banana republic government...

[atreides1]

3. Uh huh

Amnesty International would be better off delivering this report to the Orca at Sea World...because it'll pay more attention to it then Brewer and her klan of neo-nazi lovers ever will!!!

[texshelters]

5. That's true but

sending it to the media and getting this out to the people and the AG of the US might get something rolling. Maybe

Unfortunately, even Charles Manson or Pol Pot would be elected in Arizona if he ran as a Republican.

PTxS

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Ptah.

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r

[Auntie Bush]

7. Arizona has a bunch a scumbags in power/charge. They are the ones who need

to be in solitary confinement where they can't contaminate any one else with their ideas of fairness and what's right..