Every State Needs a Law against Torture

Your State Needs This Law 1.  A person is guilty of torture if he intentionally causes severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, to be inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person…
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Email after the 2009 Episcopal Convention

Dear Family and Friends, Just a few minutes ago the House of Bishops concurred with a previous action by the House of Deputies and passed resolution C020 against torture “in any location in the world.” The first to speak to the resolution was George Packard, Bishop for Chaplaincies, including the Armed forces of the United…
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Press Release: Malcolm Boyd’s New Poem

Manset, Maine – June 25, 2009 – Katrina’s Dream published a new poem today by Malcolm Boyd about torture in American prisons.  The poem connects torture in our American jails and \in Anaheim this July to pass a resolution asking Congress to outlaw torture in American jails and prisons.  The resolution is on the internet…
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First Email from the 2009 Episcopal Convention

Dear Family and Friends, The General Convention is a window into the Episcopal Church. The exhibit hall is one example.  We see the foolish expenditure of lavish booths — some with piles of silver and gold chalices costing thousands and thousands of dollars — displayed in architecturally marvelous booths.  There are also booths of indigenous…
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The Poem Challenges Torture

Katrina’s Dream published a new poem today by Malcolm Boyd about torture in American prisons.  The poem connects torture in our American jails and prisons with Jesus’ suffering.  The publication is timed to encourage the Episcopal Convention in Anaheim this July to pass a resolution asking Congress to outlaw torture in American jails and prisons. …
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Malcolm Boyd’s Poem

We’ve mainstreamed torture, haven’t we, Jesus?  Turned it into just another word in the clutter of everyday news. Not something to work up any sweat about. It seems to me our worst sin is to torture people who are already in our power as prisoners. Like people in our prisons. Like Bobby Dellelo. The 33…
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A Resolution for General Convention

Title:  Prohibit the Torture of Prisoners in the United States of America Resolved, the House of _________ concurring, that the 76th General Convention requests the Congress of the United States to prohibit torture including long-term solitary confinement and every cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners in all prisons, jails, and other places of confinement…
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Who Gets Tortured Most?

We torture tens of thousands of prisoners in the USA. They are largely BLACKS, HISPANICS, MENTALLY ILL, POORLY EDUCATED, just plain POOR, and if any of the above speak out and demand justice and fair treatment they are shipped far away from friends and allies as POLITICAL PRISONERS. A BBC documentary on USA prison torture…
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Washing State Prison Reform?

          Summary Report by The Washing State Institute for Public Policy Under current long-term forecasts, Washington State faces the need to construct several new prisons in the next two decades. Since new prisons are costly, the 2005 Washington Legislature directed the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to project whether there are “evidence-based” options that…
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NAACP leader challenges Maine prison policies

By LANCE TAPLEY  |  December 10, 2008 Like a movie hero, the NAACP’s new, young national president, Benjamin Jealous, swept into the 900-inmate Maine State Prison in Warren on Monday, quelling protests among the prisoners and, at least temporarily, rescuing the organization’s prison chapter from being snuffed out by state corrections officials. This is the…
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Mass Torture in America

Mass Torture in America And how to stop it By Lance Tapley An address given at the National Lawyers Guild 70th Anniversary Convention in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2007. Some prisoners howl in constant agony. On Halloween, I have a true ghost story to tell: the story of 50,000 ghosts in America, the largely…
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