Because released detainees and their families are threatened about speaking out and monitored, there are undoubtedly many, many more stories that will go untold.
An ex-Iraqi officer spoke to Aljazeera.net in Damascus, Syria, on condition of anonymity, promising to speak on the record once he gets his wife and two daughters out of Iraq.
The officer was a member of the squad assigned to guard a senior member of the Iraqi leadership and he survived an air raid near Basra. But he did not survive the tip-off by one of his wife's relatives.
"I was seriously injured and reached Baghdad half dead. Shortly afterwards I was arrested by the US forces, and thrown into Camp Cropper detention centre," he said.
"The torture inside this camp leads you sometimes to wish you were dead."
Aljazeera article
The officer was a member of the squad assigned to guard a senior member of the Iraqi leadership and he survived an air raid near Basra. But he did not survive the tip-off by one of his wife's relatives.
"I was seriously injured and reached Baghdad half dead. Shortly afterwards I was arrested by the US forces, and thrown into Camp Cropper detention centre," he said.
"The torture inside this camp leads you sometimes to wish you were dead."
HowU.S. prisons
U.S. citizens.
A group of guards at the Broward County Main Jail kicked and stomped on a handcuffed, naked inmate Wednesday night until he was unconscious, according to several inmates who said they witnessed the beating. Sun-Sentinel article
For example, in September 1996, guards at the Brazoria County jail in Texas staged a drug raid on inmates that was videotaped for training purposes. The tape showed several inmates forced to strip and lie on the ground. A police dog attacked several prisoners; the tape clearly showed one being bitten on the leg. Guards prodded prisoners with stun guns and forced them to crawl along the ground. Then they dragged injured inmates face down back to their cells. Reuters article
"We’ve been trying for almost a year to remedy the deplorable conditions and abuse in Texas jail facilities," Jacobs continued. "It’s disappointing that it took a video tape to force the corrections department to take action on these well-documented complaints." '97 ACLU article
"We’ve been trying for almost a year to remedy the deplorable conditions and abuse in Texas jail facilities," Jacobs continued. "It’s disappointing that it took a video tape to force the corrections department to take action on these well-documented complaints." '97 ACLU article
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