MP in Iraq worked at troubled Pa prison

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040507/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_abuse_guard&cid=519&ncid=1480

Clearly - he had the necessary training and supervision right here at home. If something good were to come for all this...could we dare hope for humane treatment of prisoners here at home as well?


PITTSBURGH - A military police officer under investigation for abusing Iraqi prisoners was employed at a state prison during an abuse scandal six years ago, but was not implicated in that case, according to the state Department of Corrections.

Two guards from State Correctional Institution at Greene were fired in 1998 and 22 other guards were punished for using undue force against inmates, but Army Spc. Charles A. Graner Jr. was not among them. The prison superintendent was demoted and transferred to another county.

Graner, 35, faces a possible court-martial on criminal charges of maltreatment and indecent acts in Iraq, his civilian attorney, Guy Womack, has said.

Graner's bushy mustache and smile are now familiar to much of the world as the man standing behind a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners. In one photo, he is standing arm-in-arm with Spc. Lynndie England, who is four months' pregnant with his child.

Prisoners in the Pennsylvania scandal claimed in dozens of lawsuits that abuse was widespread at the maximum-security state prison and included beatings, sexual assault and body cavity searches in full view of other guards and inmates.

Graner was hired in May 1996, two years before inmates at the prison in Greene County, in the southwestern corner of the state, claimed they were terrorized and beaten by guards. The abuse occurred during transfers to "the hole," the restricted unit where the prison holds problem inmates.
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Graner's former wife filed an order for protection against him in March 2001 after he grabbed her by her hair and tried to shove her down stairs, according to court documents.

His ex-wife told police at the time Graner said, "I have nothing and if she's not my wife, she's dead."

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grounds for this type of abuse?
Graner sounds like a real piece of work, a real bully.

The prison guards union in California has the reputation for being the largest collection of psychopaths and sadists outside of, well, the California prison population.

I wonder about Texas', Louisana's, etc. prisons. Actually, I guess I don't have to wonder.

Thanks.

The prison industry is an ugly, ugly thing.

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it's not easy to make me laugh these days but your post made me LOL!!! :hi:

Sadistic MPs told to "loosen up" prisoners before interrogation. Take a monster like that, give him a free hand, then tell him "good job" when he does his worst.

Like throwing gasoline on an open fire.

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