Torture victims in U.S.

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www.Rawstory.com

Video shows Ghraib-like torture by sheriffs lead to man's death, say groups, family

Jennifer Van Bergen
Published: Tuesday July 25, 2006


On Feb. 6, 2006, Jessie Lee Williams, Jr., a 40-year-old black man in a Southern Mississippi jail, was allegedly hooded and hog-tied by police, beaten about the head and testicles and ultimately died from blunt injuries to the head.

The coroner determined the death was a homicide. The local sheriff indicated law enforcement agencies were investigating and that the individual targeted by the investigation is “no longer employed by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department.”

Despite the fact that the beating was videotaped, no arrests have been made.

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1. So where are the tapes?

Not that I want to see them, but we have a right to know what OUR police, who are being paid with OUR tax dollars, are doing in the name of American law.

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3. Safe I hope.

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2. One thing I've noticed

with the privatization of prisons and at the same time militarizing them, this kind of thing is on the rise. Instead of training guards and paying them a decent wage, they hire the otherwise unhirables and let them run rampant with tasers and whatnot.

Not to mention just the culture of violence we live in and the dismissal of anybody behind bars as less than human.

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4. And whatnot. Culture of violence seal of approval.

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5. It helps that the Republicans are wanting to cut funding FY 2007

for policemen and firemen.

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6. absolutely. They're next on the list for privatization.

And we all know how well that works.

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7. kick