U.S. : Attack Dogs Used Against Prisoners

TORTURE in our own prisons. And what do we do about it?
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http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/10/06/usdom14362.htm

U.S.: Attack Dogs Used Against Prisoners

Worst Offenders Are State Prisons in Connecticut and Iowa

(New York, October 11, 2006) – Five state prison systems in the United States permit the use of aggressive, unmuzzled dogs to terrify and even attack prisoners in efforts to remove them from their cells, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report. The entire world has seen the photo of an Abu Ghraib detainee crouched in terror before a snarling dog, but the use of attack dogs against prisoners here in the U.S. has been a well-kept secret. Jamie Fellner, Director, U.S. Program of Human Rights Watch, and author, "Cruel and Degrading."

The 20-page report, “Cruel and Degrading: The Use of Dogs for Cell Extractions in U.S. Prisons,” publicly reveals this practice for the first time. It also shows that the practice is not only cruel, but wholly unnecessary as there are safer, more humane alternatives that corrections officers can use – and most across the country do use – to remove prisoners from their cells. In Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah, if a prisoner will not voluntarily leave his cell when ordered to do so, officers may bring a trained attack dog to the cell front to terrify the prisoner into compliance. If the prisoner still refuses, the dog is let into the cell to bite the prisoner. While the prisoner tries to fend off the dog, correctional officers place restraints on him and then remove him from the cell.

“The entire world has seen the photo of an Abu Ghraib detainee crouched in terror before a snarling dog, but the use of attack dogs against prisoners here in the U.S. has been a well-kept secret,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. Program of Human Rights Watch. “Longtime corrections professionals were appalled when we told them that guards in some states use dogs on prisoners.” The state prison systems in Connecticut and Iowa frequently use dogs for cell extractions. In Utah, they have been used extremely rarely. In Delaware and South Dakota, although state corrections policies permit the use of dogs for cell extractions, prison officials say they are not in fact used for this purpose.

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And Bush goes and preaches human rights to people around the world? If you have ever been attacked by a BIG dog you know how wrong this is. America has gone to Hell!

Edit...I do not know anything about the source you link to, but if this is true, it's a sad day for our country!

Nazis is the truth HF! :grr:

Nothing actually much surprises me anymore. What a shame.

Army General Advised Using Dogs at Abu Ghraib, Officer Testifies

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 28, 2005; Page A18

Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller told top officers during an advisory visit to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that they needed to get military working dogs for use in interrogations, and he advocated procedures then in use at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court testimony yesterday. MORE...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702083.html

The Dogs are just dogs, the guys behind this kind of thing, are the real ANIMALS!

dogs against anyone as abusive to the dogs also.

Hard to believe it's only been 6 years isn't it HF?!! Time seems to have barely passed especially when you know that there are those suffering so horribly.


As they sow...:grr:


We will survive this somehow Hube, I hope. :hug:

Texas law is now national apparently. WHen the fugg did all this happen.

:(