http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/iraq_prison_wardens_040520-1.htmlWardens Chosen to Establish Iraq Prison System Had Past Abuse Allegations
May 20, 2004 — A number of former state prison commissioners chosen by the Bush administration to establish a prison system in Iraq left their old posts after allegations of neglect, brutality and inmate deaths, an investigation by ABCNEWS has found.
Last year, the former head of Utah's prison system, Lane McCotter, was hired by the U.S. government to help set up Iraq's new prison system and train guards.
He even led a tour of Abu Ghraib for U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who attended the reopening of the Baghdad prison.
But in 1997, guards at a Utah prison, then under McCotter's charge, made a videotape showing the abuse of Michael Valent, a mentally ill inmate who allegedly would not follow orders.
Inmate Kept in Restraints for Hours
Valent was stripped naked, marched down the halls and, under an approved procedure at the time, placed in a special restraint chair, where he was left for 16 hours.
"By the time he was finally released from that restraint chair, he developed blood clotting and, through a pulmonary embolism, died," said Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.
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Wolfowitz toured Abu Ghraib "death house"
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.