Prison & Police Abuse: Media References, Reports and
Resources
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Prisoner Abuse: References and Resources for Media
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Video: Nora's mom, 85-year old Bea Callahan, denied
prison visit with her son after "positive drug test"
- from CW-TV 33, Dallas, TX, May 3, 2007 |
Video Update: Family turned away from federal prison after
death of prisoner's mother - from CW-TV 33, Dallas, TX,
November 3, 2007 |
Video: False Positives Cause Problems For Prison Visitors;
from WEEK-TV (IL), 2/25/08 |
Article: False
Positives Cause Problems For Prison Visitors; from WEEK-TV
(IL), 2/25/08
Article: Prison
Tests Keeping Out Some Drugs, And Visitors; from Ft.
Worth Star-Telegram (TX), 7/29/07
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Media: Contact us at (509) 684-1550 or moreinfo@november.org
for interviews or additional resources.
Horror
'Abuse' By Cops; from New York Post (NY), 10/24/08
DEA
Mass Body Search of Plane Passengers Spurs Angry Reaction in
Marianas; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/24/08
Federal
Judge Rules Against Joe Arpaio in Landmark Class-Action Jail
Lawsuit; from Phoenix New Times (AZ), 10/22/08
[Joe
Arpaio] Judge To Rule On Lawsuit Against County Jails;
from East Valley Tribune (AZ), 9/14/08
OpEd:
None Of Us Is Safe From Police Raids; from Baltimore
Sun (MD), 9/2/08
Witnesses
Dispute Police Account Of Fatal Prince George's Shooting;
from Washington Post (DC), 8/19/08
Buffalo
Police Batter Their Way Into Wrong House; from Buffalo
News (NY), 8/18/08
Former La.
Police Officer Indicted In Taser Death; from Associated
Press (US), 8/13/08
Jackson:
Lima Trial 'An Injustice'; from The Blade (OH),
8/8/08
Prince
George's Raid Prompts Call For Probe; from Baltimore
Sun (MD), 8/8/08 -- More Abuse News
Ohio
Officer Acquitted Of Killing Mom Holding Baby; from Associated
Press (US), 8/5/08
Death, The
Drug War, And Cory Maye; from LewRockwell.com
(US), 8/4/08
Prosecutor
Questions Justification For Lima Shooting; from The
Blade (OH), 7/30/08
Two Dogs
Dead, a Family Traumatized, Another Day in the Drug War;
from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 8/1/08
Federal
Report Finds Poor Conditions At Cook County Jail; from
New York Times (NY), 7/18/08
Man Dies
After Cop Hits Him With Taser 9 Times; from CNN.com
(US), 7/26/08
Sheriff
Joe Arpaio Has Cost Taxpayers $41 Million; from Hispanic News
(US), 12/17/08
Abetting
Police Aggression: The "COPS Effect"; from
Pro
Libertate Blog (US), 7/25/08
How
Scores of Black Men Were Tortured Into Giving False Confessions
by Chicago Police; from AlterNet (US), 7/23/08
Dallas
VA Hospital Closes Psych Unit After 4th Suicide; from
Associated Press (US), 4/17/08
Special
Report: Taser Death Ignites Racial Tensions; from Chicago
Tribune (IL), 7/19/08
Videos
of Violent Police Training Appear as Mexico Awaits U.S. Aid;
from Washington Post (DC), 7/2/08
Government
Study Confirms Sexual Abuse Epidemic in County Jail;
from Stop Prisoner
Rape (US), 6/26/08
Immigration
Agency to Reveal Some Death Data; from Washington
Post (DC), 6/5/08
US Accused
Of Holding Terror Suspects On Prison Ships; from Guardian
(UK), 6/2/08
Alabama
Sheriffs Feed Inmates On $1.75 A Day; from Associated
Press (US), 5/16/08
There's
Nothing Funny About Prison Rape; from Los Angeles
Times (CA), 3/30/08
Tracy Ingle:
Another Drug War Outrage; from Reason Magazine (US), 5/7/08
(Those wishing to contribute to Tracy Ingle's legal battles
can do so at: www.justicefortracy.com )
Torture
As Therapy And Therapy As Punishment; from Statewide Harm Reduction Coalition (MA),
April 2008
A Painful
Choice For Moms In Prison; from San Jose Mercury News
(CA), 4/18/08
Police:
Okla. Sheriff Ran Sex-Slave Operation From Jail; from
KOCO-TV News (OK), 4/16/08
FCC
Coleman Prison Officer Charged In Inmate's Fatal Beating;
from Orlando Sentinel (FL), 3/29/08
Gang Fights
In [Fed] Prison Injure 22 And Kill One; from New York
Times (NY), 3/29/08
Torture
In Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons;
from Alternet
(US), 3/24/08
US Department
of Justice Public Hearings On Prison Rape; from Stop Prisoner Rape
(US), 3/10/08
13,000
Abuse Claims In Juvie Centers; from Associated Press
(US), 3/2/08
SPLC
Campaign Closes Notorious Mississippi Girls' Prison;
from Southern
Poverty Law Center (AL), 2/14/08
Woman
Calls Police for Help, Gets Violently Strip Searched;
from Alternet
Blogs (US), 2/11/08
Deputies
Suspended For Wheelchair Dump; from Seattle Times
(WA), 2/13/08
U.S. Among
Harshest For Sentencing Children; from San Francisco
Chronicle (CA), 1/20/08
First-Ever
National Survey of Prisoners Shows Widespread Sexual Abuse in
Detention; from Stop
Prisoner Rape (US), 12/16/07
The
UN Deems Use of Taser X-26 Is "a Form of Torture";
from Le Monde (France), 11/23/07
Gassed
Behind Closed Doors; from CBS 4 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale
(FL), 11/20/07
GAO
Study Reveals Abuse Allegations, Deaths at Residential Treatment
Programs; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/12/07
Parents
Tell Of Horrors At Youth Boot Camps; from Arizona
Republic (AZ), 10/11/07
San
Bernardino County Settles Strip Search Lawsuit; from
Los Angeles Times (CA), 9/25/07
Judge
Finds Inmate Rights Violated; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 9/24/07
Salt
Lake Attorney Wins Point In [Abuse] Cover-Up Case; from
Deseret Morning News (UT), 9/8/07
Group
Protests Firm's CIA/Torture Ties; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 8/24/07
Government
Study Confirms Systemic Sexual Violence in Detention;
from Stop Prisoner
Rape (US), 8/16/07
Romney,
Torture, And Teens: The Former Governor's Connections To Abusive
"Tough Love" Camps; from Reason Magazine
(US), 6/27/07
County
Prison Inmate Gives Birth In Her Cell; from Times-Tribune
(PA), 7/14/07
Female Inmates:
Jammed Behind Bars? from Sacramento Bee (CA),
7/9/07
Stop
Prisoner Rape Welcomes Passage of Texas Prisoner Rape Legislation;
from Stop Prisoner Rape (US), 5/22/07
A Devastating
Link: Prisoner Rape, The War On Drugs In The U.S.; from
Clarion-Ledger (MS), 5/16/07
8
Ex-Prison Employees Charged In Fla.; from Associated
Press (US), 5/9/07
Subjects
or Objects? Prisoners and Human Experimentation; from
New England Journal of Medicine (MA), 5/3/07
Stories From Inside: Prisoner Rape and the
War on Drugs; from Stop Prisoner Rape, 3/22/07
Report:
Prison Rape and the War on Drugs; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/23/07
Family
To Get $5 Million In Boot Camp Death; from BET.com
(US), 3/15/07
Abuse Reports
Shake System; from Associated Press (US), 3/7/07
The Death
Of Timothy Souders; from CBS TV: 60 Minutes (US),
2/11/07
Experts
Dispute Risks Of Using Stun Guns On Pregnant Women; from
Associated Press (US), 1/31/07
Are Prisons
Driving Prisoners Mad? from Time-CNN (US), 1/26/07
Human
Errors Added To Inmate Death At Florence Prison; from
Arizona Republic (AZ), 1/24/07
Op-Ed:
The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars; from New York Times
(NY), 1/15/07
Inmate Suicides
Linked To Solitary; from USA Today (US), 1/11/07
OpEd: Prison
Detrimental To Nonviolent Offenders - And Taxpayers;
from Amarillo Globe-News (TX), 12/22/06
Prison
Slaying Raises Questions; from East Valley/Scottsdale
Tribune (AZ), 12/7/06
SeagovilleFilings.com:
$450 Million Class Action Lawsuit concerning overcrowding and
abuse at the federal prison at Seagoville, TX. Read More.
Family
Sues Over Teen's Prison Death; from Sacramento Bee
(CA), 11/29/06
Day 1 For Deputies:
Go To Jail; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 11/26/06
Prisoner
Abuse Lawsuit, Hobby Unit, Texas; from Texoma Coalition
(OK), 11/26/06
US:
Supermax Lockdown; from Le Monde Diplomatique
(France), 11/20/06
Stunning
Revelations: The Untold Story Of Taser-Related Deaths;
from In These Times (US), 11/13/06
Judge Forces
LA County to End Jail Overcrowding; from The NewStandard
(US), 10/31/06
Prison
Restraints Likened To Torture; from Grand Rapids Press
(MI), 10/14/06
Al Qaeda
Suspect: U.S. Government Gave Me LSD; from New York
Sun (NY), 10/11/06
Prisons
Sic Attack Dogs on Inmates, Report Finds; from The
NewStandard (US), 10/16/06
Behind
Bars, Sex Charges The Air; from St. Petersburg Times
(FL), 9/24/06
Jailing
Pregnant Women Raises Health Risks; from Women's E-News (US Web), 9/20/06
35 Years
After Attica, Prisons Are Still A Crime; from Hartford
Courant (CT), 9/13/06
Inmate:
Testifying Cost Me A Beating; from St. Petersburg
Times (FL), 9/13/06
Inmate
'Suicide' Doubted By His Family; from Columbia Daily
Tribune (MO), 9/10/06
Mentally
Ill Inmate Dies In Isolation; from Detroit Free Press
(MI), 8/20/06
Campaigners
Fight to Keep Mentally Ill out of Solitary Confinement;
from NewStandard News (US), 8/18/06
Panel
Suggests Using Inmates In Drug Trials; from New York
Times (NY), 8/13/06
Activists
Call for Real Remedies to Prisoner Rape; from NewStandard
News (US), 8/3/06
Release: Government
Prisoner Rape Study Shows Increase in Sexual Violence Reports,
Raises Concerns About Correctional Authorities' Follow Up;
from Stop Prison Rape: SPR (US), 7/06
Truth Has Value,
Even Without Justice; from Chicago Tribune (IL),
7/23/06
Inmate
Shackled 5 Days; from Rocky Mountain News (CO),
7/25/06
Grieving
Family Awaits Inquiry Into Its 2nd Jailhouse Death; from
Los Angeles Times (CA), 7/19/06
Declassified
Gitmo Notes Tell of Widespread Abuse; from NewStandard
News (US), 7/11/06
Torture
In Maine's Prison; from Portland Phoenix (ME),
Nov 05
Prison
Sexual Abuse Called Out Of Control; from Associated
Press (US), 6/23/06
Confronting
Confinement: A Report Of The Commission On Safety And Abuse In
America's Prisons, 6/8/06
Justice
Dept. Looks Into Deaths Of People Subdued By Stun Guns;
from USA Today (US), 6/14/06
Eight
Indicted In Shelter Death Of Boy; from Miami Herald
(FL), 5/23/06
Chicago's
Abu Ghraib: UN Committee Against Torture Hears Report on How
Police Tortured Over 135 African-American Men Inside Chicago
Jails; from Democracy Now! (US), 5/9/06
Column:
Americans Using Boot Camps, Prisons To Control Black Kids;
from Chicago Tribune (IL), 5/17/06
Taking
The Cuffs Off At Carswell; from Fort Worth Weekly
(TX), 5/3/06
The US Gulag
Prison System; from ZNet Magazine (US Web), 4/21/06
A
Story of Torture: Pass It Along; from Nora's Blog,
Apr 06
Jackson,
Sharpton Lead March To Protest Boot Camp Death; from
Bradenton Herald (FL), 4/21/06
Deaths Raise
Taser Questions; from Spokesman-Review (WA), 4/17/06
Column:
Glossing Over Mistreatment In The Magbie Case; from Washington
Post (DC), 4/8/06
Kansas Students
Speak Out Against Tasers in Schools; from NewStandard
(US), 4/6/06
County
To Pay In Strip-Search Lawsuit; from Tallahassee Democrat
(FL), 3/31/06
Death Raises
Concern At Police Tactics; from BBC News (UK),
3/21/06
Abu
Ghraib, Symbol of America's Shame, to Close Within Three Months;
from The Guardian (UK), 3/10/06
Report
Finds Few Protections For Pregnant Prisoners; from NewStandard
(US) , 3/6/06
Column:
Boot Camps For Kids Should Be Given The Boot; from Miami
Herald (FL), 2/16/06
Abu
Ghraib Leaked Report Reveals Full Extent of Abuse; from
The Guardian (UK), 2/17/06
"How
Can You Justify Using A Taser 12 Times?" from Globe
and Mail (Canada), 2/14/06
Guards
Seen Beating Teen In Video; from Miami Herald
(FL), 2/9/06
Human Rights Watch World Report 2006: U.S.
Policy of Abuse Undermines Rights Worldwide; from Human Rights Watch
(Worldwide)
Study Claiming
Rape Rare In Prisons Disputed By Experts; from Associated
Press (US), 1/31/06
New Details,
New Questions In Jail Death; from San Jose Mercury
News (CA), 1/22/06
Special Report: Sexual Abuse Behind Bars;
from The Detroit News (MI)
Prison
Sex Lawsuits Costing State; from Associated Press
(US), 1/18/06
Red Tape
Lets Guards Rape Women Prisoners, Suit Argues; from The
NewStandard (US), 1/6/06
Official
Report: Recent CYA Death Was Preventable; from Stockton
Record (CA), 12/30/05
Rotting
Away: Thousands Of New York Inmates Have Hepatitis C. Only A
Few Hundred Get Treatment; from Village Voice
(NY), 12/7/05
Investigation
Details Abuse, Endangerment of Prisoners After Katrina;
from The New Standard (US), 11/18/05
Woman
Claiming Illegal Strip Search Sues Sheriff's Office;
from Eureka Reporter (CA), 11/16/05
The Sickening
Details Of Why And How The Prisoners Are Dying; from
American Chronicle (US), 11/16/05
Some Kind of
Manly, by Molly Ivins; from Working For Change
(US), 11/10/25
Commentary:
When Prison Rape Begins; from New America Media (US), 11/4/05
Truth
About Torture; from Newsweek Magazine (US), 11/3/05
Hospital
of Horrors [FMC Carswell]; from Fort Worth Weekly
(TX), 10/19/05
The Prison
Industry In The United States: Big Business Or A New Form Of
Slavery? from Granma
International (Cuba),10/13/05
Abuse,
Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System; from
The
NewStandard (US), 10/12/05
New
Orleans Officers Charged In Taped Beating; from Associated
Press (US), 10/10/05
Who
Isn't Against Torture? from The New York Times,
10/10/05
Judge
Orders Release Of Abuse Photos In ACLU/FOIA Lawsuit;
from Punch and Jurists, 9/12/05
Release: Men
Tell Court They Were Left to Drown in New Orleans Prison;
from ACLU
National Prison Project, 10/6/05
Senate
Sets Standards On Detainees; from The Los Angeles
Times (CA), 10/6/05
Release:
ACLU Seeks Information on the Fate of 6,500 New Orleans Prisoners;
from American
Civil Liberties Union (US), 9/28/05
Report:
New Orleans - Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters; from
Human Rights
Watch (US), 9/22/05
Perspective:
Torturous Silence on Torture; from Truthout.org (US Web), 9/27/05
Protest
Decries Death After Taser Hits; from The Tennessean
(TN), 9/27/05
Justice
For A 'Death Of Neglect'; from Washington Post
(DC), 9/17/05
Prisoners
Left to Drown in New Orleans; from Democracy Now (US),
9/13/05
Thoughts
On Crime And Punishment; from The Sedalia Democrat
(MO), 9/2/05
Release: Commission
Hearing Probes Crowding In Prison, Use Of Isolation, & Medical
And Mental Health Care; from The Commission On Safety And Abuse In America's
Prisons, August 2005
Legislation
Calls For An End To Cuffing Women During Labor; from
San Jose Mercury News (CA), 8/1/05
Released:
US Prisoner Rape Report (Department of Justice);
from Reuters News (US), 7/31/05
Opinion:
The Roots of Prisoner Abuse; from New York Times
(NY), 7/31/05
Editorial:
The Truth About Abu Ghraib; from Washington Post
(DC), 7/29/05
Guantánamo
Detainees in Hunger Strike; from Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia), 7/22/05
Tasers
Can Be Deadly; from Associated Press (US), 7/17/05
Abu Ghraib
Tactics Were First Used at Guantánamo; from The
Washington Post (DC), 7/14/05
7 U.S.
Jails To Get High-Tech Fences; from The Orlando Sentinel
(FL), 7/3/05
Inquiry
Could Change Prisons, from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 6/5/05
Commissioner
Wants Closer Look At Beating Death Of Jail Inmate; from
The Tuscaloosa News (AL), 5/27/05
Mich. Inmates
Sue Over Being Held Naked; from The Associated Press
(US), 5/26/05
Judge: Public
Has Right to See Abuse Photos; from The Associated
Press (US), 5/26/05
US Leads
Global Attack on Human Rights - Amnesty; from Reuters
(US), 5/25/05
Mothers
In Chains: Why Keeping US Women Prisoners In Shackles During
Labor And Delivery Is The Real Crime Against Society;
from Salon.com (US-Web), 5/23/05
The
Unknown Unknowns of the Abu Ghraib Scandal, By Seymour
Hersh; from The Guardian (UK), 5/21/05
Rx Sought
For Prison Health Care; from The Sacramento Bee
(CA), 5/22/05
Sex Abuse
of Federal Inmates by Guards "A Significant Problem,"
Justice Department Says; from The Drug War Chronicle (US Web), 5/13/05
Judge Blasts
State's Prison Health Care; from San Jose Mercury
News, 5/11/05
OpEd: Mother's
Plea For Son Before It's Too Late; from The Oakland
Tribune (CA), 5/8/05
Editorial:
Prison Predators; from Washington Post (DC), 5/6/05
Inside
City's Booking Center, There's Far Too Much Company;
from The Baltimore Sun (MD), 5/1/05
Panel
Convenes Hearing On Prison Violence; from The Associated
Press (US), 4/20/05
Former
Warden Recounts Abuses In Florida Prisons; from The
St. Petersburg Times (FL), 4/20/05
Torture
Inc. - Americas Brutal Prisons; from UK Channel 4 (UK), March 2005
February 2005: The
Vera Institute of Justice is establishing a Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons.
Read about it at: www.prisoncommission.org.
State
Board Calls Rikers Suicide a Glaring Case of Poor Care;
from The New York Times (NY), 4/4/05
Father,
Guards Face Charges in 'Scared Straight' Stunt; from
ABC News Online (US Web), 4/1/05
The Pentagon's
Secret Stash; from Reason Magazine (US), Apr 05
'One Huge
US Jail'; from The Guardian (UK), 3/19/05
Afghan
Detainee's Leg Was 'Pulpified,' Witness Says; from The
Los Angeles Times (CA), 3/23/05
Video
Shows U.S. Soldiers in 'Ramadi Madness' Abuse; from Reuters
(US), 3/7/05
Sheriff
Joe Featured In 'Torture: America's Brutal Prisons';
from Sonoran News (AZ), 3/2/05
From Bagram
to Abu Ghraib; from Mother Jones Magazine (US), March/April 2005
National
Commission To Examine U.S. Prison Conditions; News Release,
from The Vera Institute for Justice, 3/1/05
Ex-Narcotics
Chief Behind Bars; from The Knoxville News-Sentinel
(TN), 2/23/05
Campbell
Officers To Plead Guilty; from The Knoxville News-Sentinel
(TN), 2/22/05
Tape Reveals
Terrifying Campaign In War On Drugs; from The Knoxville
News-Sentinel (TN), 2/6/05
Do You Like
Adventure? from In These Times Magazine (US),
2/4/05
Dems Weigh
Delaying Gonzales Appointment; from The Associated
Press, 2/1/05
ACLU
Calls On Gonzales to Appoint Special Counsel on Torture Abuses;
ACLU Press Release (US), 1/30/05
My Nightmare
of Torture and Assault, By Briton Held In Guantanamo;
from The Independent (UK), 1/30/05
Gitmo
Soldier Details Sexual Tactics; from The Associated
Press, 1/27/05
Editorial:
The Wrong Attorney General; from The New York Times,
1/26/05
Torture
In Iraq Still Routine, Report Says; from The Washington
Post (DC), 1/25/05
Soldier Could
Get 15 Years; from The Spokesman-Review (WA),
1/15/05
Stop
the Confirmation of Alberto Gonzales! from PeopleJudgeBush.org
(US Web)
Justice Dept.
Rewrites Memo on Torture; from The Associated Press
(US), 12/31/04
America's
Abu Ghraib: We Torture Them Here, Too; from New York
City Indymedia (NY), 12/14/04
Gonzales
Hearings Could Become Ugly; from The Washington Times
(DC), 12/14/04
Perspective:
Chickens Come Home to Roost, by Marjorie Cohn; from Truthout.org
(US Web), 12/7/04
These Torturers
Work For You, by Molly Ivins; from The Spokesman-Review
(WA), 12/5/04
Ethics
And The Shadow Of Torture; from PBS Online (US
Web), 12/3/04
Upcoming Forum in NYC: Reflections
on Abu Ghraib: The Use and Abuse of Prison Power in the United
States
Four
Ex-Detainees Sue Rumsfeld, 10 Others; from The Boston
Globe (MA), 10/28/04
Oklahoma
Sheriff Allegedly Had Sex, Threatened Female Inmates;
from Associated Press (US), 10/21/04
Special Issue on Torture and Abuse in Prisons;
from the September 2004 issue of Justice Matters, the
newsletter of The Western Prison Project
Broad
Use of Harsh Tactics Is Described at Cuba Base; from
The New York Times, 10/16/04
Ex-Inmate's
Suit Offers View Into Sexual Slavery in Prisons; from
The New York Times, 10/16/04
Senseless
Killings, Flagrant Abuse of Police Power, Willful Disregard of
Prisoners' Rights; from Democracy Now! (US Web),
9/28/04
Iraqi Dungeons
and Torture Chambers Under New, American Trained Management;
From Prison Legal News (US), Sep 2004
U.S. Probing
Alleged Abuse Of Afghans; from The Los Angeles Times
(CA), 9/21/04
U.S. Doctors
Tied to Prisoner Abuse; from The Toronto Star
(CN ON), 8/20/04
Federal
Prison Won't Accept Former CIA Contractor; from The
Associated Press (US), 8/17/04
Abu Ghraib,
USA, By by Anne-Marie Cusac; from The Progressive
Magazine (US), July 2004 issue
From
Attica to Abu Ghraib, by Norman Solomon; from CommonDreams.org
(US Web), 8/6/04
One-Third
of Detainees Who Died Were Assaulted, By Tom Squitieri
and Dave Moniz; from USA Today (US), 6/1/04
Shocking
Prisoner Abuses Are Revealed; from The Independent
(UK), 8/4/04
The Secret
File of Abu Ghraib; from Rolling Stone Magazine
(US), 7/28/04
Teaching
Torture, By Doug Ireland; from The LA Weekly (CA),
7/22/04
Treat the
Epidemic Behind Bars Before It Hits the Streets (Editorial
Observer); from The New York Times (US), 6/22/04
Inmate
Abuse Closer To Home Than Abu Ghraib, By Neal Peirce;
from The Charlotte Observer (NC), 7/3/04
Rape Nation,
By Kari Lydersen; from AlterNet (US Web), 7/2/04
New System
For Probing Prison Abuse, By Sean P. Murphy; from The
Boston Globe (MA), 6-28-04
US Prisons
Nurture Violence, Disease; from The Taipei Times
(Taiwan), 6-23-04
The Same,
Only Different, by Tim Wise; from ZNet Magazine
(US Web), 5-13-04
Hearings
Set In Iraqi Abuse, By Todd Pitman; from The Associated
Press, 6/15/04
This War And
Racism -- Media Denial In Overdrive, by Norman Solomon;
from The Jordan Times (Jordan), 6/17/04
Ashcroft
Comments on Anti-Terror Policy [& Torture] (text);
from the DOJ Terrorism Oversight Hearings, U.S. Senate,
House Judiciary Committee, 6/8/04
Video Documents
Jail Horrors On Reservations; from The Billings Gazette
(MT), 6/15/04
Leaked
Torture Memo: Full Text; Working Group Report On Detainee Interrogations
in the Global War on Terrorism; from TruthOut.org
Ex-Inmate
Says Abu Ghraib Suspect Mistreated Prisoners In Pennsylvania,
by Drew Griffin; from Cable Network News (CNN), 5/28/04
INS Prisons:
Torture In A Florida Jail; "Whatever We Want To
Do With You", By Mark Dow; from Axis of Logic (US
Web), 6/5/04
Commentary: Prisoner
Abuse: How Different are U.S. Prisons? by Jamie Fellner,
Esq.; from Human Rights Watch (US), 6/7/04
Experts
Say U.S. Prisoners Are Subjected To Iraqi-Style Abuse,
by Hazel Trice Edney; from The Wilmington Journal (NC),
6/7/04
It Happened
Here First: Exporting America's Most Notorious Prison Officials
to Abu Ghraib; from Democracy Now Radio with host Amy Goodman
(US), 6/2/04 (Democracy
Now Radio is monitering the connections between the abuse
in the Iraq prisons and prisoner abuse in U.S. prisons.)
America's
Abu Ghraibs, by Bob Herbert; from The New York Times
(NY)
Islamic Group
Says Professor's Treatment In Prison Inhumane; from The
Associated Press
Abuse At Iraqi
Prison Predictable, Decades-Old Study Shows; from MTV.com
(US - Web)
Some US Prisons
As Bad As Abu Ghraib; from Straits Times Interactive
(Asia - Web)
Justice Dept.
Rebuilt Abu Ghraib Prison To Be Model of U.S. Criminal System;
from The Labor Educator (US - Web)
Signs On
The Road To Abu Ghraib, by Sam Smith; from The Progressive
Review (US Web)
Abu Ghraib
in America, by Elizabeth Alexander, ACLU; from The
Center for American Progress (US - Web)
Look Higher,
Deeper Than Prison Guards; from The Lexington Herald-Leader
(KY)
"Abu
Ghraib Means Impunity", by Dr. Michael A.
Weinstein; from The Power and Interest News Report (US
- Web)
Editorial:
The Dark Side of America; from The New York Times
Un-American?
Look At Tragedies Black Men Suffer, By Derrick Z. Jackson;
from The Detroit Free Press (MI)
The Gray
Zone - How A Secret Pentagon Program Came To Abu Ghraib,
By Seymour Hersh; from The New Yorker Magazine
The America
We Know, By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor; from The Berkeley
Daily Planet (CA)
Exporting
America's Prison Problems; by Dan Frosch, from The
Nation Magazine
US Abuse Of
Black Men A Prelude To Scandal; By Derrick Z. Jackson,
Globe Columnist, from The Boston Globe (MA)
Chain Of
Command - How The Department Of Defense Mishandled The
Disaster At Abu Ghraib; By Seymour Hersh, from The New Yorker
Magazine
Mistreatment
Of Prisoners Is Called Routine In U.S., By Fox Butterfield;
from The New York Times
Torture
at Abu Ghraib - American Soldiers Brutalized Iraqis.
How Far Up Does The Responsibility Go? By Seymour Hersh; from
The New Yorker Magazine
Commentary:
Exporting America's Shame - Allegations In Iraq
Reflect The Violent, Abusive Prisons That Have Arisen In The
U.S.; from The Los Angeles Times
Abuse Common
In U.S. Prisons, Activists Say; from Reuters News
(US)
The America
He Knows; from ZNet Commentaries (US Web)
Other Prisoner Abuse Resources:
Photos of Iraqis Being Abused by US Personnel;
Slideshow from The New Yorker Magazine (Caution: contains
graphic images)
1999 - Amnesty International - Not Part of My Sentence - Violations
of the Human Rights of Women in Custody (PDF Format)
1998: The
Past and Future of US Prison Policy: Twenty-Five Years After
the Stanford Prison Experiment," by Craig Haney
and Philip Zimbardo, from American Psychologist, July 1998, Vol.
53, No. 7, (PDF Format)
1998 - Amnesty International - USA: Rights For All: Human Rights In The United
States Of America (PDF Format)
1971 - The
Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the
Psychology of Imprisonment, conducted at Stanford University
| Gates of Injustice - by Alan Elsner is
a compelling exposé of the U.S. prison system: it tells
how more than 2 million Americans came to be incarcerated ...
the rampant abuse on the inside ... and how a giant "prison-industrial
complex" promotes imprisonment over other solutions. Published
2004. |
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The
Stolen Lives Project: Killed By Law Enforcement: Provides
important and compelling exposures of the nationwide epidemic
of police brutality and outright murder.
Also visit these web sites:
2M (Two Million,
Too Many) has released a timely song entitled Our Own Kind.
The song was written to warn that sadistic abuse unleashed
in Abu Ghraib was born in US prisons. A mix of folk verse,
ethnic rhythms, and mournful accordion, it takes the listener
to the horror of Abu Ghraib prison.
Download "Our Own Kind"
Mp3 |
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