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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

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Torture Inc. America's Brutal Prisons


Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

By Deborah Davies

They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.

The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs. Many of the prisoners have been ordered to strip naked. The guards are yelling abuse at them, ordering them to lie on the ground and crawl. ‘Crawl, motherf*****s, crawl.’

If a prisoner doesn’t drop to the ground fast enough, a guard kicks him or stamps on his back. There’s a high-pitched scream from one man as a dog clamps its teeth onto his lower leg.

Another prisoner has a broken ankle. He can’t crawl fast enough so a guard jabs a stun gun onto his buttocks. The jolt of electricity zaps through his naked flesh and genitals. For hours afterwards his whole body shakes.

Lines of men are now slithering across the floor of the cellblock while the guards stand over them shouting, prodding and kicking.

Second by second, their humiliation is captured on a video camera by one of the guards.

The images of abuse and brutality he records are horrifyingly familiar. These were exactly the kind of pictures from inside Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad that shocked the world this time last year.

And they are similar, too, to the images of brutality against Iraqi prisoners that this week led to the conviction of three British soldiers.

But there is a difference. These prisoners are not caught up in a war zone. They are Americans, and the video comes from inside a prison in Texas

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1 Comments:

Blogger Kangaroo Brisbane Australia said...

What the hell would you expect from a state that was governed by an illiterate lunatic, who thrives on that kind of thing, nothing would surprise me that happened around that asshole and his brother. And they are not doing the same things around the world in the prison camps? what a frigin joke Yeah wonder when America as a Country will be awake at the wheel and realise what they have allowed to happen maybe they are also happy with what is happening, Killing people who have no means of defending themselves, that is not strength that is murder, of the worst kind. It really makes you sit down and think about what Americans really think, because the world is getting, a not very pretty picture of America from Bush and his Administration and the cable news that lick his ass and put out all his lies for a country not interested in finding out the truth, the so called truth come from the mornons Hannity Orielly Limbaugh the so called Christians, God help us all if these Hypocrits are the Christians of the world,we are certainly lost .

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