Torturer of Iraqis Now Working in U.S. Prison with thousands of prisoners, including Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Charles A. Graner, Jr., an army reservist pictured in some of the photos showing U.S. Military personnel abusing Iraqi prisoners and who is cited in a military report as supervising the torture of Iraqi prisoners, is a CURRENTLY EMPLOYED prison guard at the SCI-Greene maximum security prison in western PA where thousands of prisoners are held!
Worse yet, Graner was made a prison guard in Iraq based on his experiences in Pennsylvania! Additionally, Graner worked at SCI-Greene during a wave of torture and prison officials are still refusing to release his files relating to this.
Read more at: http://www.thejerichomovement.com/charlesgraner.html _________
USE OF TORTURE IN IRAQI AND AMERICAN PRISONS COMPARED Today's Undernews contains a grim series of accounts of torture not just under U.S. auspices in Iraq but in American prisons over the past few years. Much of this has been regularly reported by the Progressive Review and other alternative publications but repeatedly ignored or downplayed by the corporate press. What follows is a chart of torture techniques reported just in today's accounts, illustrating that what has happened in Iraq is not an anomaly but very much a part of contemporary American culture.