Jails / Prisons : Why Are Folk So Surprised that the US is Mistreating Prisoners?

WOW Destee this is HOT! Graphic details Below

What a HOT topic and time. Below is the abuse of american prison and detention centers, and this is only in Ohio. One facility, so imagine the magnitude. You all have made some very good points here.

The Iraqi situation is the practice what we preach and do here, blown up in a location they felt was far away from U.S. Courts and American Justice System. See some Americans view the Arabs as sand n***ers. So anyone in that region is lower than a rat in their eyes. Look around America has captured or participated in taking every land on this planet, and this was the last stomping ground to b conquered. Blacks have foolishy followed this govt. into others land , helped fight to take the land and get America the ruling hand in these lands and made each land we helped invade, hate us more.

MANASIAC there was a whistle blower soldier that reported it to a higher up, and they collected photo's they knew existed and reported it to the media.
The abuse we see in the Iraq prisons are the same abuses known to be a major part of the American Fabric. The thing here is now the truth is out, with photo's and because it is a abuse to the Arab nation. The abuse will stop. The message must get out that not only this has to stop in Iraq, but prisoner abuse across the world must be stamped out.

I wrote a letter this morning to the Executive Director Donald Miniken of the publication Prison Legal News.

dminiken@prisonlegalnews.org

PLN is subscribed to and read by civil and criminal trial and appellate attorneys, judges, public defenders, journalists, academics, paralegals, prison rights activists, students, family members of prisoners, concerned private individuals, state and federal prisoners politicians and government officials.

http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/

I expressed that if he doesn't capitilize on this to help in the cases you can read below read then he has failed those prisoners and and lost an opportunity that won't come along again in centuries.

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Here is another sorce I found today, I'm going to drop them a line also.

http://www.prisonactivist.org/

info@prisonactivist.org.


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The Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Ohio. Stop Prisoner Rape is a national human rights organization that works to end sexual violence against men, women, and youth in all forms of detention.

SPR offers hope in these three ways:
By pushing for policies that ensure institutional accountability,
By changing society’ s attitudes towards prisoner rape,
By promoting access to resources for survivors of sexual assault behind bars.

Here are a few stories of the abuse.

http://www.spr.org/pdf/sexabuseohio.pdf

Prisoner Amy Hale* told SPR she was sexually assaulted at the Northeast Pre-Release Center in 2001 by a corrections officer who entered her cell, hit her in the face, and raped her. Retaliation for reporting rape is so commonplace that, after she reported the attack, she was transferred for her protection to ORW. However, the staff at ORW were informed of what had happened. Hale reported serious harassment at ORW, beginning with four officers making comments about her, including one who said, "Oh, that's the b**** who
told, I know her." Hale says that seven to eight male correctional officers subsequently entered her cell, put a towel around her neck, and screamed at her, saying, among other things, "Listen b****, do you know we can kill you? The only person you can call on is God." The officers held her down on the bed, choked her, and spat in her face. Gagging, and about to pass out,
Hale believed that she was going to die. In the course of the assault one of Hale's fingers was dislocated. After the incident, Hale told SPR, staff continued to harass her, joking about the fact that she was afraid, and that she had begged for her life while being attacked.

• Former inmate Michelle Baker, who was incarcerated at ORW from 1995 to 2000, told SPR that corrections staff members regularly traded make-up, perfume, and fast food for sex. She said that if family members complained to the Highway Patrol about an inmate's sexual abuse, the inmate would be locked up incommunicado in the hole, stripped of basic privileges, and forbidden to talk to anyone inside or outside of the prison.

• Marjorie Simmons,* who served nine years at ORW, also told SPR that corrections officers in the prison routinely exchanged favors for sex. She also reported that prisoners who complained of sexual abuse were sent to the hole, and described it as noisy and dirty with no heat, a place where prisoners were served cold food and were allowed to shower only once every two or three days. Simmons said staff would also retaliate against inmates by "tearing up your room" or "making restrictions" on an arbitrary basis.
Simmons described the atmosphere as a climate of fear where some staff members make inmates' lives "a living hell."

• In Ohio, state law forbids sexual relations between prisoners and corrections employees, and sexual battery is a third-degree felony punishable by one to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Criminal prosecution of ORW staff members, however, has been rare, despite the firing of dozens of correctional employees for inappropriate sexual activity.
One result of this approach is that the details of most investigations into sexual abuse are not matters of public record. Those cases which do go to trial, however, offer an illuminating insight into the circumstances of prison sexual abuse.
 

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