maybe we should have the
icrc start monitoring u.s. prisons since it appears that “mistreatment” of prisoners is systemic and there are some familiar faces behind the problems:

“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.”

“The experts also point out that the man who directed the reopening of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year and trained the guards there resigned under pressure as director of the Utah Department of Corrections in 1997 after an inmate died while shackled to a restraining chair for 16 hours. The inmate, who suffered from schizophrenia, was kept naked the whole time.”

and i’m sure it will shock, shock, everyone to know that some of the worst abuses have occurred in texas.