Domestic Abuse

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People across the country are rightfully outraged by the abuses in U.S. prisons in Iraq. According to a recent ABC/Washington Post poll, 69 percent of Americans think this kind of abuse is unacceptable in any situation. But where is the outrage for the abuse of prisoners right here at home?

A recent New York Times article details physical and sexual abuse of prisoners in facilities throughout the U.S.--abuse that continues with little public knowledge or concern. Like prisoners of war in Iraq, domestic inmates are routinely humiliated and degraded. In Pennsylvania and other states, staff regularly strip inmates in front of other inmates before their transfer to a different unit or prison.

At the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix, Ariz., jailers force male inmates to wear women's pink underwear as a form of humiliation. New inmates at Virginia's Wallens Ridge maximum security prison report being forced to wear black hoods, allegedly to keep them from spitting on guards. Former inmates have said that guards often beat and cursed at them and forced them to crawl.

Texas has been home to some of the worst abuses. For much of George W. Bush's tenure as governor, Texas prisons were under a federal consent decree due to crowding and violence by guards against inmates. What prompted the consent decree? A federal court found that guards were allowing inmate gang leaders to buy and sell other inmates as sex slaves.
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1. this isn't quite correct

At the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix, Ariz., jailers force male inmates to wear women's pink underwear as a form of humiliation.

All the underwear Sheriff Joe gives out are dyed pink because so many items of clothing were being stolen when inmates were released. They are not "forced" to wear women's underwear.

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