From: uvj at vsnl.com
OTOH, torture is commonly used in other countries, primarily against their own citizens. e.g. visit the website of National Human Rights Commission of India http://www.nhrc.nic.in/ <http://www.nhrc.nic.in/> for info on violation of civil rights.
Ulhas
^^^^^^^^ Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S. By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates.
In Pennsylvania and some other states, inmates are routinely stripped in front of other inmates before being moved to a new prison or a new unit within their prison. In Arizona, male inmates at the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix are made to wear women's pink underwear as a form of humiliation.
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The corrections experts say that some of the worst abuses have occurred in Texas, whose prisons were under a federal consent decree during much of the time President Bush was governor because of crowding and violence by guards against inmates. Judge William Wayne Justice of Federal District Court imposed the decree after finding that guards were allowing inmate gang leaders to buy and sell other inmates as slaves for sex.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08PRIS.html?hp