Homeland Security ignoring abuses here: U.S. Detainee Abuse Cases Fall Through the Cracks

[conjur]

From the 11/18/2004 All Things Considered on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/ru...8-Nov-2004&prgId=2

Allegations of guards beating and terrorizing detainees have emerged from jails Homeland Security uses to hold immigrants awaiting deportation. But legal redress for the alleged victims is unlikely. NPR's Daniel Zwerdling has the second of two reports.

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I was listening to this on the way home yesterday. It's rather long but describes how screwed up our own prison systems are, esp. for people not technically charged with a crime but, rather, awaiting deportation. They have no access to legal counsel and are truly lost in a legal limbo with no rights nor recourse. And DHS is utterly clueless in how to handle this.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: conjur
It's rather long but describes how screwed up our own prison systems are, esp. for people not technically charged with a crime but, rather, awaiting deportation. They have no access to legal counsel and are truly lost in a legal limbo with no rights nor recourse. And DHS is utterly clueless in how to handle this.

They can hang them, that's what they do in Iran.

 

[Czar]

there is a reason why many countries consider US prisons to be inhumane