06/16/05

With American military personnel being sentenced to prison for abusing Iraqi prisoners of war and Amnesty International calling the military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay a 'gulag,' the world's attention is being drawn to this nation's treatment of the prisoners it takes on foreign battlefields. That's an encouraging development, but as someone who's spent more than his share of time in prisons right here in the U.S., I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. More than 2 million people languish in prisons and jails here, frequently enduring conditions of confinement that rise to the level of torture...

http://www.counterpunch.org/lomax06162005.html

from CounterPunch, by Adrian Lomax


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp