America's Prisons: The Worst National Disgrace

By Anthony Gregory

The U.S. correctional system is the worst of America?s domestic disgraces. More people languish behind bars in the United States than in any other country, except perhaps China if we factor in the unknown numbers in labor camps. As the Economist?summed it up:

America has around 5% of the world's population, and 25% of its prisoners.?Roughly one in every 107 American adults is behind bars, a rate nearly five times that of Britain, seven times that of France and 24 times that of India. Its prison population has more than tripled since 1980. The growth rate has been even faster in the federal prison system: from around 24,000--its level, more or less, from the 1940s until the early 1980s--to more than 219,000 today.

Much of the blame for this falls on the war on drugs, particularly the policies spearheaded by the Reagan administration, escalating through the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. But ending the drug war will not address the whole problem. Drug offenses account for about half of federal inmates but closer to a quarter of state inmates. Many others face punishment for non-violent property crimes. Even some of the truly vicious criminals, however, experience conditions that the state should never inflict on anybody.

In practice, U.S. imprisonment has become an institution of slavery, torture, and rape.?New studies indicate that about two hundred thousand inmates fall victim to sexual abuse each year. The rates are highest in the juvenile system. What?s more, the assailants are not who you might think they are:

The new studies confirm previous findings that most of those who commit sexual abuse in detention are corrections staff, not inmates. That is true in all types of detention facilities, but especially in juvenile facilities.

In American popular culture, it is common to joke about prison rape, as though there?s something funny about someone with no chance of escaping being brutally violated day after day. It is also accepted as part of the implicit sentencing. But a justice system worth the name doesn?t inflict rape on anyone, even the worst criminals. Torture and sexual abuse as punishment have no place in any society that claims even a casual appreciation of what it means to be civilized.

Another outrage: At any given time, about 80,000 American prisoners endure solitary confinement, a punishment developed in the early nineteenth century and banned by much of the world as a form of torture. It fails the Eighth Amendment test on cruel and unusual punishments, considering that it is not only cruel but was unheard of at the time of the Constitution?s ratification.

In solitary, prisoners suffer day and night in tiny cells, kept from virtually all human contact, for months at a time. They are fed through?a slot in his door and isolated from light. Many prisoners are not allowed to read, watch TV, or have practically any personal possessions at all.

Within the last month,?Herman Wallace?was released when a judge vacated his conviction after 41 years in solitary in a Louisiana prison. Four decades of this type of torturous imprisonment is an immoral punishment for any crime.?As it so happens, some people end up in solitary who were never even accused of committing violence against anyone. Cameron Douglas, actor Michael Douglas?s son, ended up in prison on drug charges. After nine years of incarceration, he failed a drug test--they can?t keep drugs out of prison, of course--so they stuck him in solitary.

If solitary inmates try to pass a note to another prisoner, the punishment is another six months in solitary. Some face years and years of solitary--even a lifetime--who never did anything but acted naturally, as any animal or human would, if stripped of all their agency, confined to a minuscule cage.

The rest of the industrialized world looks upon America?s prison population in horror and disbelief. The sheer size and scope of the system dwarf practically all the penal systems in the world, the vast majority of them by an order of magnitude. The cruelty of America?s system easily surpasses that of almost any other developed country. The disproportionate nature of U.S. punishments probably makes some foreign sadistic tyrants, who lack the material means to construct such an enormity, green with envy.

It is hard to imagine anything going on within the borders of the United States that is worse than the correctional system. There are many other awful injustices--most of which have a direct or indirect relationship to the prisons. The police have become totally out of control. The public schools typically treat children as low-security prisoners or worse. Child protective services, coerced institutionalization for the ?mentally ill,? and the dehumanizing treatment of undocumented immigrants, including their confinement to concentration camps along the border, all come to mind, and almost all involve something related to or resembling the standard correctional system. Outside the borders, the U.S. wages bloody wars and engages in systematic abuse in its foreign detention camps. Yet nothing scandalous in Guantanamo should ever shock an American who knows anything at all about what happens every day in hundreds of prisons in America.

In a sane world, the domestic atrocity known as American prisons would be discussed in mainstream media outlets on a daily basis, forcing politicians to speak about this nearly unfathomable outrage. Defenders of the status quo typically demand those who radically critique this system to explain their own ideal alternative. Well, maybe there is no ideal alternative, but we do know for sure that the current system is 100% morally unacceptable and cries for constant national attention until increasingly better alternative ideas do get a chance at being seriously tried. We do know that the vast majority of people in prison do not belong in any kind of detention center, and that those who might warrant institutional confinement should nevertheless not face rape and torture on a regular basis. We know the system is rotten enough that figuring out its proper replacement should be a fixture of perennial debate until the replacement occurs.

In a sane world, no presidential or congressional election would go by without millions clamoring to know: ?What are we going to do about the prisons?? Unfortunately, most people don?t care much about the prisons and those inside them. But systems of inhumane horror have a tendency eventually to ensnare those who thought they were immune. If you think you or someone you love could never wind up in prison, you really have been neglecting to educate yourself. We must stop this madness before it eats America whole.

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cops,prisons with guards,they are needed.just not as currently used and abused .I beleive in the U.S. government, just not all the corruption that runs rampent within it.anybody else notice the glazed look on the powers that be?that is the addiction to abuse of the powers granted to them .look at the fed shutdown and how it is being used to place as much harm as possable on the best people in U.S. society. douugo, "that glazed look" you mention, is indicative of mind control.

I'm curious about your believing in the US government. Do you believe in the "ideal" that it's supposed to be? or, do you support the bad actors playing politicians, that our government is comprised of presently?

when the fed shutdown, did you cease to exist? clearly not - that should tell you: the GOVERNMENT CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT YOU!
YOU CAN EXIST WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT!

help the people who are in need on your own - that's how you can get back to the "ideal." that's what I do.

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Transforming America's Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance

By John W. Whitehead

?To the degree that we take away play, we deprive children of the ability to practise adulthood, and we create people who will go through life with a sense of dependence and victimisation, a sense that there is some authority out there who is supposed to tell them what to do and solve their problems. That is not a healthy way to live.? ? psychologist Peter Gray

These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in our nation?s schools. A 14-year-old student arrested for texting in class. Three middle school aged boys in Florida thrown to the ground by police officers wielding rifles, who then arrested them for goofing off on the roof of the school. A 9-year-old boy suspended for allegedly pointing a toy at a classmate and saying ?bang, bang.? Two 6-year-old students in Maryland suspended for using their fingers as imaginary guns in a schoolyard game of cops and robbers. A 12-year-old New York student hauled out of school in handcuffs for doodling on her desk with an erasable marker. An 8-year-old boy suspended for making his hand into the shape of a gun, in violation of the school district?s policy prohibiting ?playing with invisible guns.? A 17-year-old charged with a felony for keeping his tackle box in his car parked on school property, potentially derailing his chances of entering the Air Force. Two seventh graders in Virginia suspended for the rest of the school year for playing with airsoft guns in their own yard before school.

Thus, it?s tempting, when hearing about the 7-year-old suspended for chewing his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun to chalk it up to an isolated example of school officials lacking in common sense. However, as I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, these incidents are far from isolated, occurring as they have for the better part of the past 30 years under the guise of maintaining safety and security in the schools. They are part of a concerted, top-down approach to creating a generation of obedient worker-bees content to be directed, distracted and kept in line.

Despite a general consensus that zero tolerance policies have failed to have any appreciable impact on student safety, schools have doubled down on these policies to the detriment of children all across the nation. Indeed, the zero tolerance mindset is so entrenched among school administrators all over America that we are now seeing school officials reaching into the personal lives of students to police their behavior at all times. For example, 13,000 students in the Glendale Unified School District in California are now being subjected to constant social media monitoring by school officials. Superintendent Richard Sheehan has hired private firm Geo Listening to analyze the public social media posts of students both off and on campus. Whether on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or any other social media platform, students will have their posts and comments analyzed for evidence of ?bullying, cyber-bullying, hate and shaming activities, depression, harm and self harm, self hate and suicide, crime, vandalism, substance abuse and truancy.?

Unfortunately, the Glendale program is simply one component of a larger framework in which all student activity is treated as an open book by school administrators. What we are witnessing is a paradigm shift in American society, in which no personal activity is safe from the prying eyes of government agents and their corporate allies. Every decision and action, no matter how innocent, is scrutinized, analyzed, filed, stored, and eventually held against you when those in power feel like it.

When one pulls back the veil of zero tolerance, one can see the real culprit is the corporate-state, which has been meticulously applying the zero tolerance mindset to not just public schools in America, but our workplaces, our political forums, our social interactions and even our own homes. The end result is a society which is completely pacified and willing to march in lockstep with the corporate-state.

Government officials have worked hard to indoctrinate Americans into the belief that everything you do is suspect, and anything you do can be held against you at a later date. This mindset is clear in all aspects of society, from zero tolerance policies in our nation?s schools, to SWAT team raids in our neighborhoods, from the NSA?s surveillance of all Americans? communications, to the corporate-state?s insistence that people aren?t capable of managing their own affairs. More and more people are becoming suspicious of others, quick to judge, and more than willing to follow the government?s dictates, however irrational and immoral they may be.

This manner of thinking has been slowly adopted by many Americans, but more worrisome is the manner in which it?s being foisted upon our nation?s youth. We are now living in an era in which childhood as it was once understood, a time to learn, to make mistakes, to try and fail, to try again and succeed, has been replaced by the worst elements of corporate and government culture. Children are treated as workers and prisoners, collected, corralled and controlled by teachers who increasingly act as bureaucrats, forced to fit every child into the exact same mold, regardless of their personal abilities and talents. This mindset is apparent among the proponents of the Common Core Testing Standards which threaten to unleash a new system of standardized testing on a new generation of kids.

As communications consultant Luba Vangelova has noted, the key attributes of a productive member of society are ?a zest for life, creativity, perseverance, empathy, effective communication and the ability to cooperate with others. These are things that can?t be measured well ? if at all ? by tests.? Our obsession with testing leaves children without basic reasoning and analysis skills. They are taught to parrot information, rather than produce arguments. Their value is tied to letter grades and numbers.

Psychologist Peter Gray takes this criticism further, noting that children today are rarely allowed the opportunity to engage in undirected creative activity, also known as playing. Gray notes that since the 1960s, time for play has taken a backseat in the lives of children in favor of rigid curriculums revolving around high-stakes testing. Even sports, which were once simply games played on the fly by a mixed group of neighborhood kids, have taken on the rigidity of life in a factory or cubicle. The obsession with quantifying childhood progress has gone so far that charter schools in DC are beginning to conduct high stakes testing for three and four year old children.

Over the same time period, incidences of childhood mental illness have steadily increased. The number of children and young adults suffering from major depression and generalized anxiety disorder have increased between five and eightfold since the 1950s. The suicide rate for 15 ? 24 year olds has doubled, while the suicide rate for those under the age of 15 has quadrupled.

The rise in these mental illnesses is coupled with a decrease in empathy and an increase in narcissism in young people, indicating that their ability to work with others ? as is necessary in a society ? has been muted. We?re raising a generation of anxious individuals who expect their life?s direction to come to them from orders from above. In short, we?re creating a generation ingrained with an authoritarian mindset.

This authoritarian mindset is an unavoidable consequence of the American education system. Indeed, while so-called education reformers insist on more tests, pushing schools to emulate the Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean educational systems, they miss a big piece of the puzzle: educators in those countries consider their systems a failure. Despite performing better than American children on certain international standardized tests, Chinese educators have noted that Chinese students have also demonstrated a ?lack of social and practical skills, absence of self-discipline and imagination, loss of curiosity and passion for learning.?

Despite this fact, states are pushing ahead with programs like Common Core, which not only threatens our children?s quality of education, but their privacy as well. A great deal of data will be collected under new guidelines proposed by the program. While the purposes of the data collection appear legitimate on their face, mainly focused on keeping track of student progress, we must keep in mind that we are living in the era of Big Data, in which information becomes currency between the government and their corporate benefactors. The data collected on students goes beyond test scores and includes ?social security numbers, attendance records, records of interaction with school counselors, identification of learning disabilities, and even disciplinary records.? Of course, having all of this information about every misstep or mistake one has made through his whole life does not bode well in a society in which government and corporate authorities are happy to punish any minor mishap.

We are living in an era where every personal decision, such as where to work, where to shop, where to play, who to love, who to befriend, who to worship, what to believe, and what to say, is open to scrutiny by government officials and corporate managers. It?s a poisonous mentality for those hoping to preserve democracy, and it?s being foisted upon our children, whether in the form of bureaucrats fashioning one-size-fits-all educational standards, or police officers investigating innocent activities such as children playing in the street as possible crimes.

This situation will only get worse as our children are taught to accept the police state as normal. Between the regimes of zero tolerance, the surveillance of students both in school and in their homes, and the value placed in standardized testing over teaching analytical thinking skills, we are raising a generation which is being encouraged to adopt the authoritarian mindset which pollutes the minds of our government and corporate leaders. By allowing our children to be subject to the forces of the market and the dictates of the state, we are ensuring tyranny within a generation or two, if not sooner.

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Resisting America's Torture State

by Nathan Goodman

On July 27, The Real News Network reported that the prisoner hunger strike in Georgia entered its 47th day. The strike began with ten prisoners participating; it has since dwindled to two remaining strikers.

At this point, the strikers have only a few demands. They demand medical care for injuries they suffered as a result of beatings by guards 19 months ago. They ask that their families be granted visitation rights, which were arbitrarily revoked without explanation. Perhaps most notably, according to Bruce Dixon, the prisoners demand "that their status in solitary confinement be reviewed, as per written state procedure, every 30 days, so that the state should give a reason for why they are in solitary."

These prisoners are simply demanding that the government give a reason to keep them held in solitary. This is an extremely moderate demand when we consider that solitary confinement is widely recognized as a method of torture.

In 2011, UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez declared that "Considering the severe mental pain or suffering solitary confinement may cause, it can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Furthermore, he called for an absolute ban on solitary confinement lasting longer than 15 days, citing evidence that it could cause permanent psychological damage.

If the UN strikes you as too liberal a source, ask John McCain about solitary. The Republican senator and former presidential candidate has written, "It's an awful thing, solitary ? It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment."? McCain, like many other Vietnam veterans subjected to torture, found solitary confinement to be as damaging as any of the physical abuses he faced.

Yet today, the United States government is the world?s largest perpetrator of this torture technique. In addition to having the largest prison population on the planet, the United States holds approximately 80,000 prisoners in solitary. Bonnie Kerness of the American Friends Service Committee?s Prison Watch Project points out that Americans concerned with torture abroad need to realize that they are "living with black sites in their own backyards."

These domestic "black sites" are not just for violent criminals. According to a 2010 study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, more than 60% of American prisoners are nonviolent offenders. And once they?ve been locked up, they can be sent to solitary without ever posing a real threat. A recent report in The Nation by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway found that the second most common reason prisoners in New York were sent to solitary was that their urine tested positive for drugs. "In a prison system where 85 percent of inmates are in need of substance-abuse treatment, drug use alone can get you up to ninety days in solitary, and a year if it happens multiple times," Ridgeway and Casella explained.

A year in solitary confinement is more than enough time to cause permanent psychological damage. Yet the US government is willing to hold people in solitary for far longer than a year. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodcox have now spent over 40 years in solitary in Louisiana's Angola prison. Many believe they were targeted for their prison activism with the Black Panther Party. The stated reason for their confinement is a crime that occurred over 40 years ago, a murder charge built on questionable evidence.

While the Angola case is extreme, it represents America's cavalier approach to torturing prisoners. The US government leads the world in subjecting prisoners to extreme social isolation, and typically combines this torture with other abuses. Furthermore, those subjected to this torture are disproportionately ethnic minorities and the poor.

Fortunately, a resistance is building. In addition to the prisoner hunger strike in Georgia, recent hunger strikes in California's Pelican Bay Prison and Virginia's Red Onion Prison have challenged solitary confinement and other inhumane conditions. Outside prison walls, journalists like James Ridgeway are working to expose the horrors of solitary.

This resistance must escalate. Many held in solitary are there for non-violent and victimless ?crimes.? Still more may be innocent. But regardless of what crimes America?s prisoners may have committed, a state that commits torture on a mass scale is a far more heinous criminal.
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Nathan Goodman is an anarchist writer and activist living in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been involved in LGBT, feminist, anti-war, and prisoner solidarity organizing. He also blogs at Dissenting Leftist.

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Submissiveness and Conformity in America's Business Leaders

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Russian billionaire Aleksandr Lebedev is selling all his Russian assets and moving his money elsewhere. The reason? According to the New York Times, Lebedev, who has supported the opposition to President Putin?s increasingly authoritarian rule, stated that police and regulatory inspections had become overly intense. ?The special services steamrolled my businesses into the pavement,? he said. ?I give up.?

It?s a classic case showing the benefit of a highly regulated economy and an extremely complex tax code. In such a system, the rules and regulations and tax provisions are so numerous and so complicated that it?s always easy for the state to find violations committed by people in the business world.

The result is inevitably a beautifully submissive and conformist business community. Business leaders know that if they keep their mouths shut about government wrongdoing or, even better, openly praise the government, the government will leave them alone. The businessmen know, however, that if they speak out against government wrongdoing or corruption, the government is likely to come smashing down on them with burdensome and intrusive inspections, followed by criminal indictments for regulatory breaches or some sort of tax fraud.

The situation is no different, of course, here in the United States. Have you ever noticed how rarely major U.S. companies and business leaders criticize the conduct of the U.S. government in foreign affairs? Hardly a peep about such things as torture, invasions, occupations, denial of due process, kangaroo tribunals, indefinite detention, assassination, support of dictatorships, and other such policies?

All we hear coming out of the business community are the standard inane bromides, such as ?Praise the troops for defending our freedoms here at home? or ?Thank goodness the U.S. government is spreading democracy around the world.?

Oh sure, it?s possible that all those business leaders in America?s major corporations honestly believe all that claptrap. After all, like the rest of us, most of them were sent into the government-approved school system where they were trained to become good, little citizens ? i.e., those who don?t challenge or question what their government is doing, especially when it comes to matters relating to ?national security.?

But business leaders in America have a very good appreciation of the power of the federal government, especially when it comes to regulatory bureaucrats and the IRS. If a businessman says the wrong thing, such as openly condemning President Obama?s assassination program, he knows that there is a good possibility that the federal hammer will be coming down hard on him soon. And the beauty of it is that the government can piously deny that it is punishing the man for opposing the government?s policies and claim that it is simply enforcing the criminal laws.

A good example of this phenomenon took place after 9/11. President Bush and his officials approached various telecoms and requested them to turn over confidential information relating to their customers. The business leaders knew that the president was asking them to break the law and to violate their privacy agreements with their customers. But they also knew what could happen to them if they refused to go along with the illegality ? the government could destroy them with regulatory and tax investigations and indictments, not to mention denying them government contracts.

So, the businessmen went along with the deal, rationalizing to themselves that they were doing it for the fatherland and in the interests of ?national security.?

Except for Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio. To his everlasting credit, Nacchio refused to go along with the illegality and chose to side with his customers.

Nacchio paid a high price for his principles. Oh, no, the government didn?t put him in jail for refusing to comply with the president?s illegal scheme. Instead, they sent him to the penitentiary for committing a regulatory violation ? ?insider trading? ? in much the same way that Putin is going after business people who dare to challenge his regime.

One of the best descriptions for the benefit of a state-regulated economy was set forth by Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged in a statement made by the slimy state bureaucrat Dr. Floyd Ferris:

?Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?? said Dr. Ferris. ?We want them broken. You?d better get it straight that it?s not a bunch of boy scouts you?re up against ? then you?ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We?re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you?d better get wise to it. There?s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren?t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What?s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted ? and you create a nation of law-breakers ? and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that?s the system, Mr. Rearden, that?s the game, and once you understand it, you?ll be much easier to deal with.?

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