But being stripped, hooded and urinated on

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But being stripped, hooded and urinated on while your friend is forced to masturbate next to you? The only member of the Bush clan who knows about that kind of thing is Jenna.

Of course, if the President were more of a newspaper-reading sort of feller, he wouldn't have been so shocked by the pictures. As a tough-on-crime Texan, he would have recognized such treatment immediately, perhaps even feeling a little swell of pride. If he'd ever put down the Bible for a broadsheet after his conversion, he'd know that "Texas prison" is one of the most feared phrases in the languageÐand he'd know why. When he sat down in front of Arab tv audiences on Wednesday to explain the true American way, he could have pointed to an October, 1999 story in the Austin American Statesman that detailed how female prisoners there were regularly kept in portable detention cells for hours at a time in summer heat with no water. "In fear of more time in the cages," the article explains, "many women submit sexually to their oppressors and are raped, molested and forced to perform sodomy on their captors."

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http://www.counterpunch.org/zaitchik05072004.html

[Ameridelphia]

1. I didn't see any links

The counterpunch article didn't have any links. I won't take prisoners word for much of anything. This sounds like any number of prison abuses throughout the United States.

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2. here ask for one

Alexander Zaitchik can be reached at: [e-mail]

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3. Do you live in Texas are you brown skinned ?

if so maybe you wouldn't need a link


If only some governor's aide had told him in 1999 about the hunger strike at the notorious Terrel Unit facility in Livingston, TX, where death-row prisoner Michael Sharp said before his execution, many guards "think it is their patriotic duty to torture and brutalize prisoners." If only he had not been so busy reclining in box seats at Rangers home games, the governor might have known that prisoners' attorney Donna Brorby had described Texas' super-max prisons as "the worst in the country," where guards reportedly gas prisoners and throw them down on concrete floors while handcuffed. Then the president might have been better equipped to recognize his country in those pictures.

Considering all the downtime the President has spent in the Lone Star State since 2000, he might have even heard about the 2002 conclusion of the 30-year legal battle Ruiz v. Johnson. In its write up of the case, the Austin Chronicle reported the words of Texas Judge William Wayne Justice, written after hearing lengthy expert and inmate testimony on prison conditions:

Texas prison inmates continue to live in fearS More vulnerable inmates are raped, beaten, owned, and sold by more powerful ones. Despite their pleas to prison officials, they are often refused protection. Instead, they pay for protection, in money, services, or sex. Correctional officers continue to rely on the physical control of excessive force to enforce order. Those inmates locked away in administrative segregation, especially those with mental illnesses, are subjected to extreme deprivations and daily psychological harm.
http://www.counterpunch.org/zaitchik05072004.html

[Karenina]

4. Why not take prisoners' words?

Are those prison abuses throughout the United States OK with you?

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5. I don't have a link for this either