Ashcroft's buddy helped set up the Iraq Gulag

[AlCzervik]

Sorry if it's a dupe but this is just getting sicker by the hour
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08PRIS.html

ers 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.

In Pennsylvania and some other states, inmates are routinely stripped in front of other inmates before being moved to a new prison or a new unit within their prison. In Arizona, male inmates at the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix are made to wear women's pink underwear as a form of humiliation.
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At Virginia's Wallens Ridge maximum security prison, new inmates have reported being forced to wear black hoods, in theory to keep them from spitting on guards, and said they were often beaten and cursed at by guards and made to crawl.

The corrections experts say that some of the worst abuses have occurred in Texas, whose prisons were under a federal consent decree during much of the time President Bush was governor because of crowding and violence by guards against inmates. Judge William Wayne Justice of Federal District Court imposed the decree after finding that guards were allowing inmate gang leaders to buy and sell other inmates as slaves for sex.

[WMliberal]

1. figures... asscroft got a boner

when he read Darkness At Noon and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

[DaveSZ]

2. Wow

Those Kerry internet ads are very effective!

[AlCzervik]

3. What i dont get is why

this isnt all over the news. WTF? This guy has been investigated, this torture has him written all over it and yet no coverage.