Chinese police launch crackdown on inmate abuse

Police will undertake a three-month crackdown on prisoner abuse in Chinese jails starting Wednesday, the Public Security Ministry said, amid accusations of torture and an uproar over suspicious inmate deaths.

A Mississippi jail is on lockdown today after a Sunday night riot left one prison guard dead and as many as 20 inmates and guards injured. According to sheriff’s reports, the violence began as a gang feud and soon engulfed the privately operated facility, which holds 2,50 …

Video - How the Gov't will Justify Torture of US Citizens Under NDAA - What Every State Needs To Do: Montanans launch recalls of Senators who voted for NDAA

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post In response to the traitorous actions of 86 senators who voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, commonly referred to as the NDAA, Montanans have announced a recall campaign against Senato …

In the last two years, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials have disciplined more than 30 jail employees for beating inmates or covering up the abuse, according to a report from the agency's watchdog obtained by The Times.Other deputies "get away" with unnecessary force again …

"Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labor," he said. "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp.

"A number of British military interrogators may face war crimes charges after members of their unit filmed themselves while threatening and abusing Iraqi detainees at a secret prison near Basra, the high court heard today."

A US court has given the green light to 72 Iraqis to proceed with a lawsuit against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detainees at the US run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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Prison Economics: Paying For Punishment

It costs a lot to lock people up (by some estimates $32 billion annually.) You have to house them, feed them, give them basic medical care.

Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.

Is the Obama Administration Doing Enough to End Prisoner Abuse?

During his presidential campaign, President Obama pledged to end the use of secret prisons overseas, close Guantanamo Bay prison, and stop the abuse of suspected terrorists who are held prisoner by the United States. I commend him for this.

Abuse of prisoners at Bagram prison, an American prison in Afghanistan, continues under the Obama administration, according to this article.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has named a veteran federal prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen prisoner abuse cases in which detainees were held by the Central Intelligence Agency, government officials said on Monday. Mr.

Detention policy is one of the least discussed but most important aspects of the war in Afghanistan.

Bizarre story of the abuse of a Navy Petty Officer being investigated for espionage. Basically, the guy was held for almost 2 years without charge because he did not pass a polygraph test, and subjected to abuse by NCIS interrogators, including a psychologist.

BBC interviews of former detainees found numerous "allegations of abuse" at the United States "detention facility" in Bagram, Afghanistan

Congressional negotiators reached tentative agreement on Thursday on a $105.9 billion spending measure that would provide money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September but would drop a ban on the release of photographs showing abuse of foreign prisoners  …

Prisoner abuse in the US is there. People don't seem to care about it. It is being swept under the carpet. I am especially concerned with women's rights. I think they are more at the mercy of the guards and it is not fair.

President Barack Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos from Iraq and Afghanistan after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki warned that Iraq would erupt into violence and that Iraqis would demand that U.S.

Retired Army General Taguba states that the abuse he referred to was in different photographs that "the 44 photographs that are the subject of an ongoing ACLU lawsuit that Obama is fighting."

Photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which U.S. President Barack Obama does not want released include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday.

It was particularly distressing to hear Mr. Obama echo Mr. Bush by saying that releasing the pictures would not add "to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals." This was not the fault of a few individuals.

Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, have emerged.

President Obama reverses himself and now says he will not release prisoner photos

Poll These pictures are so bad that President Obama just announced today 05/13/2009 a reverse of his position and announced that he he now must oppose the release of these photos because of their potential to create more harm and danger to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Five years ago, people around the world were sickened by photographs that surfaced showing U.S. troops abusing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Act I resulted in an avalanche of congressional hearings, 15 Pentagon probes and courts-martial. More than 400 U.S.

Apparently the number of times Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded was much lower than indicated in recent news reports.