Ex-head of TDCJ set up Iraq jail

May 15, 2004, 11:53PM
Ex-head of TDCJ set up Iraq jail
`Checkered' career raises questions
By KIM COBB
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2572688



A civilian charged with preparing Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison for U.S. military use headed the Texas prison system during one of its most controversial periods and later resigned as director of Utah prisons after an inmate died while shackled naked to a chair.

Lane McCotter, now director of business development for a private prison company, Management & Training Corp., says he never trained U.S. military personnel working in Iraq's prisons and turned over the management of Abu Ghraib to military officials before the United States began housing prisoners there.

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But McCotter resigned from the Utah job in 1997, again under pressure, when inmate Michael Valent, a 29-year-old schizophrenic, died after being strapped naked to a chair for 16 hours.

"At the time, prison officials attempted to blame Mr. Valent's death on head trauma supposedly caused by the inmate repeatedly bashing his head against a wall in a suicidal episode," Schumer said in a statement released by his office. Autopsies revealed that Valent died after blood clots formed in his legs during his confinement.

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This is horrid.

Found a photo of the butthead, with Wolfwitz:



Lane McCotter briefing Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz during a tour of the death house at Abu Ghraib Prison, south of Bagdad. Left to right, Gary DeLand, Paul Wolfowitz, Lane McCotter.

They didn't mention the head of the prison who used to be at Guantanamo Bay, Janice Karpinski, who's following these important people who have so much on their minds.

We've all surely heard of Lane McCotter's handiwork. Only with _Bush's group would he EVER be a valuable team member.

I wish we could get a new administration tomorrow, instead of waiting until January 20, 2005 or January 20, 2009 or whenever.

A contract to run Iraqi prisons.

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It seems the country is starting to do this even if the people who are hired to do it can not. Do you think this is why Powell seemed to be pushed out? It is almost as if he got out to protect his good name.He seem to be every place now.I was thinking that if Rummy goes will Bush try to put him in to the DOD? CEO's that do not know what is going on in their business are bad CEO's. Bush knows this. He has a MBA. Clinton seemed to know what was going on as Carter did. Reagan was like Bush.We are being told daily that Bush is in control so this seems to me he does not care what is going on. You can not have it both ways.