Army Reg 210-35 Civilian Inmate Labor Program

[razors edge]

http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf

They don't even classify the plans.

[TomInTib]

1. Good God...

This is absolutely incredible.

I only read the first eighteen pages and I am just freaked out. And I am not easily shook up.

The implications are terrifying.

Federal, not State prisoners. Those convicted (maybe) of Federal "crimes" (Patriot Act, etc.).

Precursor to Martial Law.

I realize that they are just covering contingencies.

But.... God....
save us.

[Tunkamerica]

2. what's so scary about this?

prisoners work on federal highways. They do other work. Who cares where they're working?

[Jcrowley]

4. What is being described here

I've included below some excerpts from this Army Regulation,
along with the URL to the full, official PDF version.
 
I've gotten lots of reports from right-wing sources about
detention centers being set up on remote military bases. I
can never tell what to believe and what not to believe from
such sources, so I don't post much of it. Here we have an
official document, from an Army website, describing the
establishment and management of such centers, apparently on
a wide-scale basis.
 
What is being described here, quite explicitly, are slave
labor camps, to be set up on military bases, providing free
labor to accomplish unspecified "tasks". When we take into
account Abu Ghraib and top-level approval of torture, we
might ask what distinguishes these labor camps from
concentration camps? We might note here that the Nazi
concentration camps were primarily slave labor camps (See:
"The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial
Dynasty that Armed Germany at War", by William Manchester-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316529400/).
American companies, including those controlled by Prescott
Bush, used this slave labor. That's why we don't hear much
about it in media accounts of the Holocaust.

<snip>

1-5. Civilian inmate labor programs
   a. Civilian inmate labor programs benefit both the Army and
       corrections systems by-
        (1) Providing a source of labor at no direct labor cost to
         Army installations to accomplish tasks that would not be
         possible otherwise due to the manning and funding
         constraints under which the Army operates.
        (2) Providing meaningful work for inmates and, in some
         cases, additional space to alleviate overcrowding in nearby
         corrections facilities.
        (3) Making cost-effective use of buildings and land not
         otherwise being used.
   b. Except for the 3 exceptions listed in paragraph 2-1d
       below, installation civilian inmate labor programs may use
       civilian inmate labor only from Federal corrections
       facilities located either off or on the installation.
 
http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1123&batch=20&lists=cj

[tyedyeto]

5. Envision, if you will.........

forced labor camps, run by Halliburton, for those of us who disagree with current Administration policy. We are the new 'emeny combatants'.

[elehhhhna]

3. k&r