Your Fellow DUers Launch WWW.ENDTHEABUSES.ORG. Take A Look!

A number of us have gotten together over the past several weeks and launched a new campaign "NO MORE EXCUSES! END THE ABUSES!" to try and work for an immediate end to illegal detention practices and the ongoing abuse of prisoners in our military detention facilities.

So far there are about ten of us involved in the effort. We have been furiously preparing graphics and documents to be sent to a wide variety of news organizations during the expected firestorm. Our goal is to pre-counter the spin with facts and truth.

We have enlisted the support of both www.allhatnocattle.net and www.bartcop.com and others to join the effort and are looking for additional sites that would like to join in as well.

The project has grown very rapidly. Press releases are being written and contacts made.

I would like to announce the launching of our new website:

www.endtheabuses.org

We are always looking for more volunteers to help with the effort. Please take a look at the site and see if it is something you'd be interested in helping out with.

We could use the help!

BTW, I loved your rat fucker graphic...LOL! :)

For anyone who might have missed it:

No more excuses. Period.

Good luck!

use a writer familiar with the issues to do some features if anyone is interested. Happy to post them!

Anyone?

some sites that deal with the subject, list some books that talk about it. :)

I know Greg Palast talked about the privatization of the system in "The Best Democracy Money can Buy"

And I saw a wicked scary article about prison transfers now amounting to getting a prisoner to give his word he won't escape in exchange for a but ticket to the next prison.

And I sure there are sites that must advocate prisoners's rights to safety.

Is there anyone you recommend that I should not forget?

Clearly these are related issues.

As we all know by now, Charles Grainer worked here before going over. Gotta wonder how he treated folks at this American job.

vetted.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Prison_System.html

http://www.prisonactivist.org/



relevant articles at common dreams: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:www.commondreams.org+prison+system

Article by greg palast:

http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=14


More articles:
http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/PrivatePrisons.htm

Any help is great!

August 1, 2003
Trivializing Prison Rape
Who Moved My Soap?

By ALEX COOLMAN
http://www.counterpunch.org/coolman08012003.html

June 16, 2005
The Real American Gulag
Torture in U.S. Prisons: Common, Lethal, Unreported

By ADRIAN LOMAX
http://www.counterpunch.org/lomax06162005.html

February 6, 2002
Sentenced to Rape

By Vivian Berger
http://www.counterpunch.org/bergerrape.html

June 9, 2003
A Review
No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons

By ALEX COOLMAN

http://www.counterpunch.org/coolman06092003.html

August 1, 2003
Nothing Funny About It
Prison Bitch

By STEVE J.B.
http://www.counterpunch.org/steve08012003.html

those are just a couple of examples,counterpunch.org also has quite a few articles on the comparisons between the US prison system and GITMO/Abu-Graib

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.counterpunch.org+prison+abuse&num=30&hl=en

prison systems Inc., and also the problems of christian favoritism, faith-based counseling programs in prisons.

Congratulations on the site, Distressed American!
Here are some links I came across in a search on "abuse of female prisoners", and "abuse of female prisoners" abu ghraib. I want to avoid the typical neglect of the issues as they regard women, since women are historically and continue to be singled out for very special abuses in addition to the abuses committed against male prisoners. Please let's not ignore this critical human rights issue.

Wow! There's alot. Here is a small (!) sampling:

http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2004/05/female_iraqi_po.html Female Iraqi POWs Finally Getting Attention

I agree that it is not a gender issue that both men and women have committed atrocities against POWs in Iraq. Women are just as capable of such heinous acts as men. However, I believe that the coverage of these acts by the press has been biased against women. Witness right-wing barking heads like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh getting all googly-eyed over the female MPs and the woman in charge of the MPs. Limbaugh sounded almost orgasmic, which I found to be nauseating. Coulter, as usual, was foaming at the mouth. Pox News is having a field day with the titilation in these stories. There are commentators out there using Abu Ghraib as evidence that women do not belong in the military.

How many Americans can name a female MP who had abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib but cannot name one male MP? The one man who had been named has received more attention for impregnating one of the women, rather than for beating and threatening to kill his ex-wife.

Much more coverage has been given to these women than to the men who have also committed atrocities. Likewise, the abuse, rape, and torture of female Iraqi prisoners has received little attention - until now.


BAGHDAD -- One woman told her attorney she was forced to disrobe in front of male prison guards. After much coaxing, another woman described how she was raped by U.S. soldiers. Then she fainted.

from the National Council for Research on Women:
http://www.ncrw.org/misinfo/misinfo_13.htm
MISSING - Information about US Military Abuse of Women

July 21, 2004

“For fifteen years women servicemembers have been sexually assaulted in ways every bit as dehumanizing and agonizing as the assaults on prisoners in Abu Ghraib. The behavior of the men who commit these crimes is every bit as appalling, and the failures of leadership equally egregious.” As this statement by Irene Weiser, Executive Director of Stop Family Violence, makes clear, the Department of Defense has failed to address a disturbing pattern of abuse identified time after time in the military’s own reports on issues that range from domestic violence to the sexual assault of female servicemembers. Other reports, mandated by Congress, have not been released.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/04/amnesty.women.prison/ US
'Torture, plain and simple': Amnesty International reports abuse in women's prisons
graphic

March 4, 1999
Web posted at: 7:55 p.m. EST (0055 GMT)

From CNN's Diane Ruggiero

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sexual abuse is "virtually a fact of life" for female prisoners in the United States, many of whom are sold by prison guards as sex slaves to male inmates, according to a new report from Amnesty International..

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Protect Female Prisoners From Male Prison Guards

Appellate court ruling upholding policy of women guards in Michigan's female prisons faces new challenge


http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0501/30/A16-73921.htm
The Detroit News

After a $ 3.7 million settlement with the Justice Department and several investigations by human rights organizations into charges of sexual abuse of female prisoners, Michigan decided to pull male guards from its prisons for women. It was the right decision.

Kicked and nominated.

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And you will, no doubt, be receiving submissions from my "good friend"
in the near future.

there!

Say hello to Lisa for me!

Over 8,000 Arab Men living in the U.S.A. have been detained and/or deported since 9/11/02 - without being charged with a crime!

http://www.helpashraf.com/phpNuke/index.php

happening right here. The better people understand this, the better off we will all be.

Thanks for the link!

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... ass DA! :D

And WELL DONE, my friend, on all of this... AND on the latest Rove graphic, which had me laughing my ass right off!!--he just looks so freakin' jolly!
He obviously doesn't give a rat's ass about his own country; I guess it's just a matter of simple greed and excess for him...

BTW, I DO have an article on the questionable mercies of our own prison system as well; I'll dig it up and get it to you asap...
I'll be back to kick this again later, I promise!
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Check your pm in a bit for more...

We are in good position to fight back against the lies and distortion that always follow a Bush disaster.

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And the work you do is critical. I've added your site to my sig line. Hopefully a few people will click on it and learn.

So, I need to rebuild one. I'll definitely do the same!

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