U.S. Uses Dogs to Scare Domestic Prison Inmates

[madmusic]

If you thought the U.S. used dogs only to scare detainees in foreign prisons, think again. Five states allow the use of dogs not only to scare, but to bite inmates.



more: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/10/11/272/52961

[William769]

1. Thats really stupid!

I spent a career in the Florida Dept of Corrections & not once did I need a dog to get an Inmate out of a cell.

[madmusic]

3. The states are Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah.

[MADem]

6. Delaware??? Delaware!!!! Good grief... nt

[Mythsaje]

2. This is abuse

not only of the prisoners, but of man's best friend.

There is a place for canines in law enforcement, but not as a tool of cruelty and torment.

[DBoon]

4. the sad truth about Abu Ghraib

is that the treatment of inmates in Iraq isn't much worse than what prisoners are routinely subjected to in the USA

[madmusic]

5. Too few people know how it's been hijacked...

For example, here in California, by the prison guard union. They practically run state politics, and that's no exaggeration.

[readmoreoften]

7. Good fucking lord. Where do I live again? What country? /nt

[951-Riverside]

8. All that shit you saw in Abu Graib started right here in America

I remember Nightline with Ted Koppel talked about it.

[madmusic]

9. Good point. was the leader there...

The one who was a prison guard, was he from one of these states? Can't remember.

[Jed Dilligan]

10. Graner

I think he was a guard in S. Carolina?

[madmusic]

11. Thanks, I should have googled it... was LAZY!

Starting on May 17, 1996 (some sources say May 20), Graner worked at State Correctional Institution-Greene, a maximum-security state prison in Greene County. (Pennsylvania)

Also...

Rather interviewed Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Chip Frederick, a participant in the abuse, whose civilian job was as a corrections officer at a Virginia prison.

source: Wiki

[gratuitous]

12. U.S. law enforcement does a lot of things domestically

I remember seeing an article (Spy magazine?) about ammunition and techniques that are against international conventions, treaties and laws, but that are routinely used by U.S. law enforcement against our fellow citizens. They specifically mentioned Black Talon bullets, but there were other things that, if used by our military, would subject us to war crimes accusations. But for use by law enforcement agencies domestically? Legal as sea salt.