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Buried in the Bureau of Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Buried in the Bureau of Prisons June 5, 2010 David C. Fathi Director, ACLU National Prison Project Imagine a country in which prisoners can be denied visits, and even telephone calls, with family members for years at a time. Imagine a country in which government officials can prevent prisoners from telling news reporters about mistreatment or abuse. Imagine a country in which prisoners who are foreign citizens can be denied their right, guaranteed by international treaty, to meet with consular officials from their nation of origin. Unfortunately, that country is not some totalitarian state in the 1950s, but the United States in 2010. Since 2006, the federal Bureau of Prisons has quietly operated a "Communications Management Unit" (CMU) at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 05, 2010 (boomark / email).