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Prison Hell in America - by Stephen Lendman
Treatment in America's homeland gulag is horrific and unreported.
Prison is hell everywhere. America is no different in, by far, the world's largest gulag. Inmates are treated worse than subhumans.
Torture is commonly used. It not just at Guantanamo and similar offshore hellholes. It happens across America in federal, state and local prisons where inmates are terrorized by dogs, shocked with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, harmed by stun guns, beaten, stripped naked, raped, and abused in other ways.
In July 2008, the Southern California ACLU (ACLU/SC) released a "Report on Mental Health Issues at Los Angeles County Jail." It discussed how confinement in overcrowded conditions produces an epidemic of unaddressed mental health issues.
It also addressed excessive staff abuse, including beatings, compounded by the stress of overcrowding and deputy or inmate-on-inmate violence.
A previous article discussed it, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/06/horrific-conditions-in-los-angeles.html
On September 28, New York Times writer Jennifer Medina headlined, "Report Details Wide Abuse in Los Angeles Jail System," saying:
According to an ACLU/SC report, "(o)ne inmate said he was forced to walk down a hallway naked after sheriff's deputies accused him of stealing a piece of mail."Another said "deputies....slammed his head into a wall and repeatedly punched him in the chest" for protesting guard treatment of a mentally ill prisoner.
As a result of daily abuse, the ACLU/SC will "file (suit) in Federal District Court here on Wednesday. The Los Angeles County jail system, the nation's largest, is also (the) most troubled, according to lawyers, advocates and former law enforcement officials."
Retired LA office FBI official Tom Parker called the "situation, the length of time it has been going on, the volume of complaints, and the egregious nature much, much worse than anything (he's) ever seen."
"They are abusing inmates with impunity, and the worst part is that they think they can get away with it."
A new ACLU/SC report discussed it, headlined, "Cruel and Usual Treatment: How a Savage Gang of Deputies Controls LA County Jails."
