Torture in American prisons

A description of my introduction to the hole. Even in <a href="http://www.federal-prison.org/">Minimum Security Federal Prisons</a> inmates are subjected to the Special Housing Unit

Corporations are running many Americans prisons, but will they put profits before prisoners?
A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. As the prison population grows   more...faster than the government can build prisons, private companies see an opportunity for profit.
This week, NOW on PBS investigates the government's trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector. Critics accuse private prisons of standing in the way of sentencing reform and sacrificing public safety to maximize profits.
"The notion that a corporation making a profit off this practice is more important to us than public safety or the human rights of prisoners is outrageous," Judy Greene, a criminal policy analyst, tells NOW on PBS.
Companies like Corrections Corporation of America say they're doing their part to solve the problem of inmate overflow and a shortage of beds without sacrificing safety.
"You don't cut corners to where it's going to be a safety, security or health issue," Richard Smelser, warden of the Crowley Correctional Facility in Colorado tells NOW. The prison is run by Corrections Corporation, which had revenues of over $1.4 billion last year.
The Crowley prison made headlines back in 2004 after a major prison riot caused overwhelmed staff to run away from the facility. Outside law enforcement had to come in to put down the uprising.
"The problems that were identified in the wake of the riot are typical of the private prison industry and happen over and over again," Green tells NOW.
This week NOW travels to Colorado, where the controversy over private prisons is boiling over. The hot question: should incarceration be incorporated?  less

Kathy Kelly, coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, talks about race, poverty and the social, political, and economic conditions that persist in African-American communities across the US.....Kathy   more...Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness. Voices in the Wilderness, founded in 1996, was the precursor of Voices for Creative Nonviolence a social justice, anti war NGO. She currently acts as the organization's coordinator. Kelly helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti, Bosnia and Iraq. In April of 2002, she was among the first internationals to visit the Jenin camp in the West Bank. In the spring of 2004, she served three months at Pekin federal prison for crossing the line as part of an ongoing effort to close an army military combat training school at Fort Benning, GA. She lives in Chicago  less

Kathy Kelly: None of the three best known candidates are dealing with the issues facing the poor

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award winning Journalist on Death-Row. In this selection from the 1996 interview he discusses prisons. Legal arguments for a new trial begin 5/17/07 9AM in Philadelphia. Support   more...is needed.
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Spies for Hire: Carlyle Group to Become Owner of ?One of America?s Largest Private Intelligence Armies?. Clive Stafford Smith: U.S. Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons; Transporting Prisoners To   more...Iraqi Jails To Avoid Media  less

A documentary exposing the flawed and broken penal system, run by corrupt and unqualified individuals throughout the State, and Federal prisons of the united states. Let this be a warning to those of   more...you who think this could only happen to a criminal... a $70.00 unpaid ticket could get you a first row seat at the next real life Catastrophe ... are your tickets paid?  less

African Americans and Hispanics have been at odds with each other for a couple of decades now. And the subject of immigration looks like it will create the divide even further. Juan Williams goes on (more)

President Bush acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial.

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...EVERYBODY can be the next!
Sad but true.

This clip is from the film "A Scanner Darkly".

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Now You Know Disregarding America's strong tradition of defending
Human Rights, the President made bad policy bad law on October 17th
when he signed the "Military Commissions Act of 2006." Find   more...out the
Truth about this New Law.
Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize
Winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members
Worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action
focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical
and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and
freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all
human rights. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section
of Amnesty International.
While we debate on the extent and boundaries of Human Rights and
Human Freedom, these Rights and Freedoms are being Violated.
You think they don't apply to you/us? You think the measures in place
are fine? You think a Military Judge is the same as a Civilian Judge?
Think Again; or better yet learn from other countries that have actually
had a history of Dictatorship. More people need to think for themselves!  less

At the Stewart County Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA, 1000 immigrants held a hunger strike protesting inadequate food and medical care. This video provides information on the plight of these immigrants   more...and provides avenues for help.  less

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I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand.
A figure walking through the mist, with a flintlock in his hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed.
He took off his three-cornered   more...hat, and speaking low, he said:
"We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty.
We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave.
In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
"The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep.
But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave.
In this, the land of the free and home of the brave.
"You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,
Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money's spent.
"Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate.
Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state.
You read about the current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.
"Your money is no longer made of Silver or of Gold.
You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our Nation, turn from God in shame.
You've taken Satan's number, as you've traded in your name.
"You've given government control, to those who do you harm,
So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm,
And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,
Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
"Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.
Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won't be born.
Your leaders ship artillery, and guns to foreign shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.
"Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride?
Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children, to live in fear and be a slave?
"People of the Republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our Great Republic, and God-Given Right!
And pray to God, to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!"
As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came.
His words were true, we are not Free, we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants, trample each God-Given Right.
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you're asleep,
And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep,
What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave?
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