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SILENT TORTURE: Dog Days Turn Deadly in America?s Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

SILENT TORTURE: Dog Days Turn Deadly in America?s Prisons by James Ridgeway First published in his blog Unsilent Generation on 1 September 2009 http://baltimorechronicle.com/2009/090109Ridgeway.shtml The U.S. government made a point of building new air-conditioned facilities for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. However, many of our equally hot southern states do not share that concern for human decency, and many deaths have and are occurring as the result. The summer of 2009 had barely begun when Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona?s Perryville Prison, was baked to death. Powell, whom court records show had a history of schizophrenia, substance abuse, and mild mental retardation, was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution. At about 11 a...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).