U.S. boasts highest prison incarceration numbers in world

With it's harsh drug laws, minimum sentencing guidelines and repeated imprisonment of non-violent offenders, the country has literally thrown the shackles on millions of individuals. In fact, the great superpower has more than 2 million of it's citizens imprisoned at this very moment.

http://welcometoafreeworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/flawed-system-us-boasts-highest-prison.html



America's Solitary Confinement Nightmare

Of course we torture, Ridgeway says. Right here in America. In our own prisons. An estimated 80,000 Americans are in solitary confinement.

http://corporatecrimereporter.com/ridgeway080510.htm


From Information Clearing House

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In America, the rule of law is dead

Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

08/06/10

Designating US citizens terrorists, providing no criminal proof of guilt or evidence of an imminent threat, and denying them legal representation is lawless and egregious by any standard. Yet, post-9/11, ‘the US government has (targeted and) detained thousands of men as terrorists, only for courts or the government itself later to discover that the evidence (or charge) was wrong or unreliable and released them.’ No one should be denied due process and judicial fairness...

http://tinyurl.com/28mglcp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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