This is shocking...Stun Tech Inc the business who is mentioned by Amnesty International is located south-east of Cleveland in Bedford Heights not far from Shaker Heights.
If one of the LBOers would want to do a corporate profile, this one would be funny as hell to do. I wonder what their corporate mission statement looks like? Profiles of the corporations top officers would have to be a hoot! Stun Tech Inc has to be a real case study in corporate antropology.
It might be interesting if Doug would profile a corporation in each issue of LBO. What better place to start than Stun Tech Inc.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Hi Tom:
> >What do you make out of this reported (NPR) move to use 50,000 volt stun
> >belts on prisoners being tried in Columbus. Is this a state or a
> >federal thing? The first use of these devices is being reported as
> >taking place today.
>
> I totally missed the NPR report you mention, but I assume that the news is
> about the actual use of stun belts _within_ Columbus, for at the federal
> level the devices have been already in use since 1994 and correctional
> agencies in Ohio have had them since 1996, according to Amnesty
> International.
>
> ***In 1994, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons decided to use
> remote-controlled stun belts on prisoners considered dangerous in order to
> prevent them from escaping during transportation and court appearances. By
> 1996 it was reported that the US Marshals service and over 100 county
> agencies have obtained such belts, as well as sixteen state correctional
> agencies including Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
> Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and Washington. The Bureau of Prisons has stated that
> it uses the stun belt on high risk inmates who require "full restraints".
> Another reason given by prison authorities for the use of such belts is
> that this will reduce law enforcement personnel costs as the US prison
> population rises.***
> (http://www.amnesty.it/ailib/aipub/1996/AMR/25104596.htm)
>
> I remember reading about a man in California who was stunned by the said
> device during his court appearance for speaking too often and who later
> sued for damage last year. What happened to his suit? Does anyone know?
>
> Yoshie