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The images of abuse and brutality he records are horrifyingly familiar. These were exactly the kind of pictures from inside Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad that shocked the world this time last year. ... They are Americans, and the video comes from inside a prison in Texas ; They are just some of the victims of wholesale...
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www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm
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Revelations of staff sexual abuse and brutality with full knowledge of the authorities at Texas youth facilities have created a furor. ... Management dynamics, Public affairs, Texas, Specialty hospitals exc.
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www.faqs.org/abstracts/News-opinion-and-commentary/Pris...
www.faqs.org/abstracts/News-opinion-and-commentary/Prison-reform-Brutality-revealed-at-Texas-youth-facilities-Officials-implicated-in-widespread-abuses.html
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[Kay Lee on censorship battle in Florida prisons in order to cover up continuing prison brutality]. First link is for a long message board thread. 2nd link is to Drug War News message, just one of many Drug War News email list messages Kay Lee has sent concerning prison brutality.
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www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gulags.htm
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4th annual Old Timers Reunion - The Texas Prison Museum will be hosting a get together for retired prison employees. Saturday, October 10, ... It was a period in which the state prison system was shrouded in secrecy. Former prisoners had only one option available to inform the public about the brutality and corruption.
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www.txprisonmuseum.org/books.html
www.txprisonmuseum.org/books.html
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The sprawling farm system that developed in Texas made it unique in the South. When Progressive Era reformers confronted abuses in the Texas prison system, they had to contend with an overwhelming profit motive that made reform difficult, and warped reform measures they managed to push through the legislature.
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www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/4.1/jach.html
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Seems the BBC has a series coming out on US prison brutality -- not in Guantanmo, or Abu Ghraib, but in normal US prisons. I remember when the first Abu Ghraib pictures came out, I posted on BOP, ... These prisoners are not caught up in a war zone. They are Americans, and the video comes from inside a prison in Texas...
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agonist.org/ian_welsh/20071010/prison_brutality
agonist.org/ian_welsh/20071010/prison_brutality
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Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of of work songs by inmates of the Ellis Unit. ... Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison Entire Folkstreams...
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www.folkstreams.net/film,122
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Bruce Jackson's 1994 album notes for the CD release of his recordings of work songs in a Texas prison ... The songs lasted until prison reform made them anachronistic. The overt brutality in the fields ended and slow workers were no longer tortured. Heavy machinery became more economical than large labor forces, so many of...
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www.folkstreams.net/context,172
www.folkstreams.net/context,172
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San Antonio, Express-News, Life, Cay Crow, Columnist ... As an inmate in the Texas prison system, I have witness(ed) the violence that seems to be respected DAILY in here, from both inmates and guards. I think even the people who are hired by the state to oversee us admire the brutality that is inflicted.
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www.mysanantonio.com/salife/columnists/ccrow/stories/MY...
www.mysanantonio.com/salife/columnists/ccrow/stories/MYSA102707.09P.Crow.1bd15ba.html
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