Dogs attack inmates at some U.S. prisons: report

[TechBear_Seattle]

"We don't use torture techniques on American citizens", my hairy behind!

BOSTON (Reuters) - Dogs are allowed to terrify and even bite prisoners who refuse to leave their cells in five U.S. states, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said it was unaware of any other nation where such a practice exists, describing it as a well-kept secret and comparing it to abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison where U.S. soldiers terrorized detainees with dogs.

"At Abu Ghraib, it was not intended for them to bite the prisoner. Here we're using dogs to terrify. If the intimidation by the dog doesn't work, then the dog goes in and bites," said Jamie Fellner, Human Rights Watch director of U.S. programs.

If prisoners refuse to leave their cells when ordered in Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah, officers may bring a dog to the cell "to terrify the prisoner into compliance," the 20-page report said.

Full story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061010/us_nm/crime_prisons_dc

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[Robbien]

2. Another little known fact about US prisons

is that 35% of the prison population is contracted to do work for big business (at below minumum wage levels). Just one big slave labor sweatshop.

[Solo_in_MD]

5. Were you aware that the US Fed Gov has to buy those products made there

under the *company name* of Unicor? There stuff won't make it on the open market...

[leftchick]

6. I thought about this today

as I watched the horror of living in NK play out on my TV. Sadly most people in America have no clue how many practices our country shares with NK.

[Robbien]

10. That is exactly what I thought when watching that piece on NK

The videos smuggled out show people with a very hard life. The very same video could be made in the US if the camera was only focused on the poor areas of the country. When they said the guy could have been sent off to a labor camp, I thought "just like they could here in the USA" prison system.

[Joanne98]

3. This is why we can't provide security for the world.

We are cruel and inhumane to our own people. NAZIs can't rule the world.

[daleo]

4. I recall several posters saying this was likely

Given the practices at Abu Ghraib (when that story first broke).

It sounds like something Bush used to accuse Saddam of doing.

[durrrty libby]

7. I don't know why they needs dogs. I've worked in the medical

dept of several prisons, and a shot of pepper spray will

usually get cooperation from the unruly inmate.

[tblue37]

8. More techniques borrowed from the Nazis. (eom)

[pitohui]

9. i don't understand how this can be legal

is this america?