scroll down to article titled: John Ashcroft Chose Abusive Consultant to Re-Open Saddam's Torture Prison
http://www.democrats.com/ NYT: "
he man who directed the reopening of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year and trained the guards there resigned under pressure as director of the Utah Department of Corrections in 1997 after an inmate died while shackled to a restraining chair for 16 hours. The inmate, who suffered from schizophrenia, was kept naked the whole time. official, Lane McCotter, later became an executive of a private prison company, one of whose jails was under investigation by the Justice Department when he was sent to Iraq as part of a team...picked by Attorney General John Ashcroft to rebuild the country's criminal justice system."
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figures the insane Ashcroft had a hand in this
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