Image gallery for U.S. prison brutality, rape, and insane astronomical incarceration levels. Photos, links, charts, banners, graphs, and more. Also check out the related image folders in the "campaigns" directory. U.S. laws, sentencing, police, courts, and prisons. U.S. prison guards abroad, too. Brutality, rape, overcrowding, torture, medical neglect, deaths, hopelessness, solitary confinement, dungeons, long sentences, astronomical incarceration rate, etc..
Quote below from page 36 of November 14, 2005 Newsweek. Emphasis added. "The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ... A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."
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The Green Triangle and the Drug War: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/triangle.htm and http://corporatism.tripod.com/triangle.htm
Astronomical Texas incarceration rate. 1% of its population imprisoned. Charts: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/texas.htm and http://corporatism.tripod.com/texas.htm
See these CannabisCulture.com forum threads for more info, photos, articles, cartoons, etc.: Jonathan Magbie: http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=959321 Renee Boje: http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1101939&fpart=13 The Drug War - Nazi Comparison: http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1107585&fpart=4
CC forum on Prisons and Police Reform: http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Board=Prisons
Prison rape: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drugwarnews/message/1647 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drugwarnews/message/1646 Mandatory minimum drug sentencing charts: http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm Total number of U.S. inmates in prisons, jails, etc.: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/usaterr.htm and http://corporatism.tripod.com/usaterr.htm
The quotes below are from an August 22, 2005 forum post by Chris Bennett, the manager of Pot.tv Some of the stats have been corrected below. Quotes (with corrected stats) begin:
Only a few years ago, the American Politician Newt Gingrich (a former pot smoker) suggested that anyone smuggling more than an ounce of the herb into the US should be executed, and former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates said "Casual drug users should be taken out and shot". Republican Representative Dan Burton backed the death penalty for drug traffickers, but when his son Dan II was convicted of felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in 1994, the elder Burton asked the judge for leniency. Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham also advocated the death penalty for drug dealers, until his son Randy was convicted of having 400 pounds of pot. He pled for mercy for his son. Also, there seems little talk on foreign policy, in either Canada or the US, about the execution of drug dealers and users in a number of eastern and middle eastern countries, like China, where their organs are sold afterwards, with the fatal shot depending on the need for what organ was to be salvaged and sold, often to foreign recipients (more money in that than soap).......
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The US Prison system currently holds 2.3 million people, that is 1 in every 131 Americans. Comparatively in Canada the ratio is about 1 in every 864. The reason for the over 600% increase in jail population per capita in the US is directly related to the failure of the War on Drugs. With 5% of the World's population, America harbors more than 25% of the World's prisoners, making the one time Land of the Free the world's leading jailer. ( I ask anyone, is there any greater definer of freedom than the amount of people a country holds in its prisons?) Irwin Cotler wants to bring American style drug laws to Canada and if he is successful then we can begin to see massive increases in people jailed for non-violent victimless drug offenses and our jail populations grow by 100%, 200% , 300% until we reach the 600% increase that is being experienced in the USA. ...
Even a 100% increase in per capita prison populations would be astounding to most Canadians. But a 600% increase in the prison population of our closest neighbor? and Cotler instead of alarming Canadians to this horrible fact, tries to bring Canada on board to the American war on Drugs, and seems intent on seeing a number of Canadians sent to the American Gulag to face 10 years or more for watering plants, selling seeds or using medical marijuana. Further, the direction Mr. Cotler is taking Canadian marijuana policy and his decision regarding the extradition of people associated with this plant goes against that of the Canadians Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs which recommended legalized regulated marijuana distribution and the conclusions of the similar House of Commons report which recommended decriminalization, as well as every major Canadian poll on this subject. Mr. Cotler has betrayed Canadian Values and in this area his loyalties lay with the White House Administration and he is the Canadian perpetuator of their insane War on Drugs.
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