What is the connection between the Prison Design Boycott and the revelations about prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and elsewhere in the “War on Terrorism”?
ADPSR believes that the abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York (where “special registration” detainees were held following 9/11) is indicative of typical problems in prisons, which is why we believe alternatives to incarceration are so strongly needed. It is in fact not surprising that some of the military police reservists who enacted the abuses were civilian prison guards outside of their reserve commitment – prisoner abuse by guards within U.S. prisons is well documented. Of course, it is totally unacceptable that the U.S. should treat foreigners this way, insulting, abusing, and killing them with impunity; the same is equally true of treatment for American prisoners. The Bush Administration’s response, to demolish the Abu Ghraib prison and replace it with a new maximum-security prison of American design, does little for anyone. The attempt to erase the memory of American abuse on the site will do little to ease th
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