Four Civilian Contractors Cited in Abuse

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Four former state prison officials hired by the Justice Department (news - web sites) to help set up Iraq (news - web sites)'s prison system have backgrounds that should have precluded them from the private contracting jobs, a senator said Wednesday. Each had lawsuits or other problems linked to their tenures in state government, Sen. Charles Schumer said. He called for the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate the "slipshod" hiring process that allowed them to work as private contractors.



"These are not the four people you would want to run any prison system," said Schumer, D-N.Y.


The four were part of a 25-member team that visited various Iraqi prisons over a period of about four months in 2003 and worked to get them up and running again.


One of the four, Terry Stewart, was sued by the Justice Department in 1997, when he ran Arizona's Corrections Department. The lawsuit charged that at least 14 female inmates were repeatedly raped, sexually assaulted and watched by corrections workers as they dressed, showered and used the bathroom.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=6&u=/ap/20040602/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/prison_abuse_congress

[saigon68]

1. THESE 4 ARE PIGS---and THUGGISH MERCENARIES

My apology to members the porcine class. a fine group of grain eating animals

[maddezmom]

2. and the biggest pig of all is ASSCRACK

:grr:

[Tellurian]

3. Yes, to think Lady Justice's boobies offended...

Holy Asscrack's morality...
His repressed sexuality is not our concern.

His dereliction of duty, the oath he swore, to protect and defend the Constitution violating every Canon of Law- is.

[Just Me]

4. My, my, my. Now the Justice Dept. is up shit creek.

Well, well. I don't suppose Asscraft had anything to do with any of this.

Another tenacle of the Bush regime gets nailed!!!

My days just get brighter and brighter.

[lostnfound]

5. DemocracyNow covered this today, including deaths under restraint

www.democracynow.org

[maddezmom]

6. these are true evildoers, thanks for the link

One man ran a prison system in Utah where a 29-year-old schizophrenic died after he was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair for 16 hours.
Another man ran the system in Arizona where 14 women were raped, sodomized or assaulted by prison guards.


Another ran Connecticut's prison system where at least two people died after being severely beaten.

All of the men who ran these prison systems were forced out by lawsuits or political controversy. But rather than being sent to prison themselves, these men were sent to Iraq by the US government to set up the prisons there. Actually, one prison - Abu Ghraib. {includes rush transcript]

[dArKeR]

7. Mafias always hire someone they can control. Someone they have something

on. Someone who they can blackmail their pasts. Case Closed.

[drfemoe]

8. kick .. n/t