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Editorial- The Abuse of Private Manning

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial- The Abuse of Private Manning Published New York Times: March 14, 2011 Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been imprisoned for nine months on charges of handing government files to WikiLeaks, has not even been tried let alone convicted. Yet the military has been treating him abusively, in a way that conjures creepy memories of how the Bush administration used to treat terror suspects. Inexplicably, it appears to have President Obama?s support to do so. Private Manning is in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va. For one hour a day, he is allowed to walk around a room in shackles. He is forced to remove all his clothes every night. And every morning he is required to stand outside his cell, naked, until he passes inspection and is given his clothes back...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).