Repressionen och rasismen kommer hem

Nu har tydligen Washington Post också rapporterat om en ny, nedtystat fängelseenhet i Terra Heute, Indiana. Här ska muslimer/araber hållas fängslade under absurda förhållanden, isolerade från omvärlden och berövade grundläggande mänskliga rättigheter. Det blir till exempel i princip omöjligt för dem som befinner sig i specialenheten att ha en rimlig kontakt med sina legala försvarare. Själva processen kring fängelset har också gått konstitutionellt dubiöst till.

På Prison Planet kan man läsa mer:

Under the CMU program, telephone communications must be conducted using monitored phone lines, be live-monitored by staff, are subject to recording, and must be in English only. All letters must be reviewed by staff prior to delivery or sending. Visits must be non-contact only, live-monitored, and subject to recording in English.

Keiffer asserts that the program, which purports to house high-risk inmates for the purpose of better monitoring their communications, "is not related to inmate security" at all.

The program "doesn't affect the highest security inmates who are still being kept in other high security prisons, where some may be allowed greater freedom in communications than the CMU inmates," he says. "It affects a class of inmates who would not garner as much sympathy as others and who have diminished support in the US."

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The federal penitentiary where the most dangerous criminals are held, including the Unabomber and the Millennium Bomber, is the maximum security prison known as ADMax at Florence, Colorado. The CMU is not being implemented there, however; instead it is being implemented in Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution in Indiana. The CMU is said to be targeting terrorists or suspected terrorists, but many being held are not considered high risk or even convicted of violent crimes.

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"The removal and concentration of Muslims" Ramey says, is a "violation of the concept of innocent until proven guilty." Though the inmates have been convicted, Ramey believes the CMU appears to be "a precursor to a program of segregation of people by religion in federal detention facilities."

"You don't segregate all Jews or all Christians," he adds.

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