prisoner abuse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8675978.stm Well, these things happen. People die at sea all the time!

Scott Horton has an excellent article in Harper's. Chilling stuff. A description of the beating given to one: On June 9th, 2006, [Aamer] was beaten for two and a half hours straight. Seven naval military police participated in his beating. Mr. Aamer stated he had refused to provide a retina...

It seems to me that it is becoming clear that those convicted for the photo's of the so called abuses in Abu Graib were not doing anything remarkably worse than many others. It seems incredibly wrong that they should have been convicted when others who did the same things are being protected by...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/12/prisoner.photos/index.html We're told that these photos are of "abuse" or "humiliation" but not "torture". One point I've wondered about is that some of these incidents involve forcing the prisoners to do degrading acts (masturbation, and so on). How...

Payback: Scumbag. 10 years is a pittance compared to all the harm he did, both to the prisoners in his charge and to the reputation of the US armed forces. Just my half-a$$ed opinion.

By FOX BUTTERFIELD Published: May 8, 2004 Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates. In Pennsylvania and...