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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          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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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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