Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier

Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier

Saturday 13 August 2011
by: Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout | Op-Ed

http://www.truth-out.org/torture-us-prison-system-endless-punishment-leonard-peltier/1312917659

Your visit to one of America's prisons may last only a few hours, but once you pass the first steel threshold, your perception of humanity is altered. The slammed doors, metal detectors and body frisks introduce you to life on the inside, but the glaring hatred from the guards and officials make it a reality. When you creep back into your own world afterward, you wonder what is really happening to the people who permanently languish behind bars.

In June 2006, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons released "Confronting Confinement," a 126-page report summarizing its 12-month inquiry into the prison systems. The commission follows up the analysis based on its findings with a list of recommendations. Topping the list of needed improvements is better enforcement of inmates' right to proper health care and limitations on solitary confinement. Five years after the report's release and despite its detailed and well-researched studies, inmate abuse continues. More recently, news reports from California's Pelican Bay Prison amplified the need for change, but after the three-week inmate hunger strike ended, the torture of solitary confinement continues nationwide.

...didn't Bill Clinton have an opportunity to give Peltier a presidential pardon. And didn't.....


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I recall an organized efforts by the FBI to keep him locked up.

then didn't. And with that, the last chance of Leonard getting to ever live outside of prison.

Leonard has served enough time. He is in poor health in any case. Let him go home to die in peace.

...then how has he "served enough time".

How much time do you think people should spend in prison for being not guilty, under normal circumstances?

You said:

A. He is not guilty, and

B. He has served enough time.

Those two statements of yours make no sense in combination with each other.

Alternatively, how much time do you think people should normally serve for being not guilty?

Don't be so dense.

You said you don't believe he is guilty and that he's served enough time.

Why do you think he should have served ANY time?

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi ring a bell?






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Peter Matthiessen's booklength expose. For a while, it was impossible to even buy it. All the suits went against the @ssholes.

Peltier is a political prisoner. They can't even place him at the scene.

And that is what Mr Peltier's treatment is about, he was not sufficiently fearful, so the FBI and BIA made an example of him.