Pubdate: Wed, 26 May 2004
Source: Kansas City Star (MO)
Copyright: 2004 The Kansas City Star
Contact:  http://www.kcstar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/221
Author: Dolores Owen
Related: Prisoner Abuse And The Drug War - What You Can Do 
http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0291.html
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AMERICAN PRISONS

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush may be comfortable 
lying to the world about the fact that the prisoner abuse is not the image 
of America, but they can't lie to the families of American prisoners in 
American prisons. These same kinds of things are happening in our prisons. 
Why does it always take a videotape before anyone believes it is a horror 
in itself?

Remember Brazoria County in Texas, Mr. President? You were the governor 
when that tape of abuse surfaced in 1997. For a year and a half, letters of 
abuse had been coming out of that prison by Missouri prisoners and their 
families, and everyone looked the other way, stating that it had been 
investigated and there was no proof of any abuses happening.

Americans need to wake up. This refusal to see what's going on in our own 
country is detrimental to all our futures.

Dolores Owen

Kansas City
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