To Onetime Political Inmates, This Jail Was No Vacation

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Iraq jail attack kills 21 inmates

Iraq jail attack kills 21 inmates 04/20/2004 09:58 AM
A mortar attack on a detention centre near Baghdad leaves 21 prisoners dead, the US military says.

Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer
(AP)

Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer
(AP) 07/20/2004 12:38 PM
AP - With their cell doors accidentally left unlocked, four county jail inmates escaped only to return the same night — with beer.

Inmates With Prosthetic Limbs Escape
Jail (AP)

Inmates With Prosthetic Limbs Escape
Jail (AP) 06/21/2004 08:10 PM
AP - Three inmates, two with artificial limbs, escaped from jail by squeezing through an 8-inch gap onto the roof and using bed sheets to descend three stories. One was captured Monday.

Jail offers violent inmates aromatherapy
(Reuters)

Jail offers violent inmates aromatherapy
(Reuters) 06/08/2004 08:14 PM
Reuters - Inmates at a jail in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S. border, where more than 300 women have been murdered over the past decade, are enjoying aromatherapy and piped classical music as part of a novel rehabilitation program.

Bush takes a vacation from vacation

Bush takes a vacation from vacation 07/19/2004 11:23 AM

Onetime One-Man Town Has Its Own Kind of
Boom

Onetime One-Man Town Has Its Own Kind of
Boom 05/24/2004 07:30 AM
With its seven residents all members of the Murray family the population of Millican, Ore., is actually booming these days.

Onetime Star Investment Banker Is Facing
U.S. Sentencing

Onetime Star Investment Banker Is Facing
U.S. Sentencing 09/06/2004 11:54 PM
Frank P. Quattrone, the banker whose deal making helped fuel the 1990’s technology boom, is expected to receive a sentence of 16 months.

U.S. To Halt Payments To Iraqi Group
Headed By A Onetime Pentagon Favorite

U.S. To Halt Payments To Iraqi Group
Headed By A Onetime Pentagon Favorite 05/19/2004 06:01 AM
"thanks for the hat." .. The New York Times .. Finally

nytimes.com/2004/05/18/politics/18CHAL.html
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Guantanamo inmates get new rights

Guantanamo inmates get new rights 02/13/2004 04:03 PM
Prisoners held by the United States at a base in Cuba will have their detentions reviewed once a year.

Inmates in Charge of Travelzoo

Inmates in Charge of Travelzoo 09/09/2004 02:41 PM
When a company with a small float comes unhinged from reality, look out.

Ark. Inmates Get Fruit, $5 for Christmas

Ark. Inmates Get Fruit, $5 for Christmas 12/23/2003 01:37 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 23 2003 0:38AM ET

Many Local Officials Now Make Inmates
Pay Their Own Way

Many Local Officials Now Make Inmates
Pay Their Own Way 08/12/2004 10:07 PM
To help cover the costs of incarceration, many corrections officers and politicians have started to bill inmates for their room and board.

About 100 Inmates Riot at Calif. Prison

About 100 Inmates Riot at Calif. Prison 12/03/2003 04:10 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 3 2003 3:43AM ET

44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped

44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped 08/02/2004 06:45 PM
ZDNet Australia Aug 2 2004 10:45PM GMT

CNN.com - Four inmates escape, go on
beer run - Jul 20, 2004

CNN.com - Four inmates escape, go on
beer run - Jul 20, 2004 07/23/2004 02:39 AM

Rioting Brazil inmates get wishes

Rioting Brazil inmates get wishes 04/23/2004 02:47 AM
Authorities give in to prisoners' demands to end one of Brazil's bloodier jail uprisings in which nine inmates died.

Inmates Help in Rescue of Captive Guard
(AP)

Inmates Help in Rescue of Captive Guard
(AP) 08/15/2004 12:40 AM
AP - Two guards who were held hostage by four inmates at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail were rescued, one of them by other inmates, as police negotiated for more than four hours to end the standoff.

French Cuba inmates 'freed'

French Cuba inmates 'freed' 07/27/2004 02:36 AM
The US has released several French nationals held at its military base in Guantanamo Bay, French radio reports.

Guantanamo inmates refuse review

Guantanamo inmates refuse review 08/04/2004 10:28 PM
Five detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, refuse to participate in military hearings, officials say.

Warner: Photos were to intimidate
inmates

Warner: Photos were to intimidate
inmates 05/11/2004 06:01 PM

England 'stomped' on Iraq inmates

England 'stomped' on Iraq inmates 08/30/2004 05:17 PM
A colleague testifies against the woman pictured in photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, Pte Lynndie England.

Two inmates found dead at prison

Two inmates found dead at prison 09/04/2004 06:30 AM
Police are treating the deaths of two prisoners at Manchester Prison as suspicious.

Jailed Singer Gives Concert for Inmates
(AP)

Jailed Singer Gives Concert for Inmates
(AP) 07/10/2004 04:32 AM
AP - Glen Campbell called it "a captive audience" — and he wasn't kidding. Campbell, nearing the end of his 10-day sentence for extreme drunk driving, gave a free 30-minute concert Friday night for about 1,000 inmates at Maricopa County's outdoor jail.

Inmates using intermediaries to escape
into Internet

Inmates using intermediaries to escape
into Internet 04/17/2005 01:27 AM
Addict3d.org Apr 17 2005 5:09AM GMT

The lemmings go over the cliff, or the
inmates are driving the bus

The lemmings go over the cliff, or the
inmates are driving the bus 03/16/2003 04:52 AM
As you may be able to tell from the links that I have selected tonight for the Midnight Blog, I am feeling fairly disheartened, too disheartened to do much original writing. Once I again, I find that my writing, which starts off being about technology and its effect on people, people and their use of technology, my voyages of discovery on this crazy thing we call the 'Net, and the fun random stuff that crosses through my brain, ends up focusing on politics, writ large. I don't know how not to write about politics, as we go to war. I feel like I am living in Europe in the summer of 1914 after the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand, and I am watching the troops mobilize across Europe for a quick fight to "show who is right," and I know how it is not going to turn out. History has many more examples of wars with different outcomes than their instigators' intended than it does of wars that turn out as planned. It is not going to be a short glorious war, although the opening stages may look like it. One billion Muslims may not rise up at once, but they are not going to be happy with Christian occupation of the Islamic heartland, and some of them will find nasty ways to express their unhappiness. It is not going to be the war to end all wars, nor will it make the world safe for democracy. Like all wars, it will brutalize the participants and bystanders alike. In this case, both sides will probably make use of advances in military technology to commit new barbarities. So it was particularly disheartening to read this brilliant article, Just the Beginning, Is Iraq the opening salvo in a war to remake the world? by Robert Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss looks at the intellectual godfathers who agitated for a war against Iraq in the 1990's, neoconservatives like Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Douglas Feith, most of whom are now in or associated with the Bush administration. As Dreyfus documents using their own words, they see the war against Iraq as just the first step in a war to remake the Middle East by militarily attacking or otherwise overthrowing the governments of Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. They want to see a Middle East dominated by an alliance between the United States and Israel, backed by overwhelming military force. They either ignore the fact that being democratic does not mean being pro-American policies, something that should be self-evident to even the most ignorant person by now, or they are clear that what they are after isn't democracy -- they would be just as happy to have authoritarian pro-American rulers. And they are prepared to have America go to war to install satraps for the new American empire. Some quotes:

"I think we're going to be obliged to fight a regional war, whether we want to or not," says Michael Ledeen, a former U.S. national-security official and a key strategist among the ascendant flock of neoconservative hawks, ... the very logic of the global war on terrorism will drive the United States to confront an expanding network of enemies in the region. "As soon as we land in Iraq, we're going to face the whole terrorist network," he says, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and a collection of militant splinter groups backed by nations -- Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia -- that he calls "the terror masters." "It may turn out to be a war to remake the world," says Ledeen. ... In their book, The War Over Iraq, William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and Lawrence F. Kaplan of The New Republic write, "The mission begins in Baghdad, but it does not end there. … We stand at the cusp of a new historical era. … This is a decisive moment. … It is so clearly about more than Iraq. It is about more even than the future of the Middle East and the war on terror. It is about what sort of role the United States intends to play in the twenty-first century." ... "Nostalgia for the last shah's son, Reza Pahlavi … has again risen," says Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer who, like Ledeen and Perle, is ensconced at the AEI. "We must be prepared, however, to take the battle more directly to the mullahs," says Gerecht, adding that the United States must consider strikes at both Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and allies in Lebanon. "In fact, we have only two meaningful options: Confront clerical Iran and its proxies militarily or ring it with an oil embargo." ... Perle called on Israel to work with Turkey and Jordan to "contain, destabilize and roll-back" various states in the region, overthrow Saddam Hussein in Iraq, press Jordan to restore a scion of its Hashemite dynasty to the Iraqi throne and, above all, launch military assaults against Lebanon and Syria as a "prelude to a redrawing of the map of the Middle East [to] threaten Syria's territorial integrity." Joining Perle in writing the IASPS paper were Douglas Feith and Wurmser, now senior officials in Bush's national-security apparatus. ... Chas Freeman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, thinks it will be a disaster. "This outdoes anything in the march of folly catalog," he says. "It's the lemmings going over the cliff."

Required Reading, especially for anybody who thinks this war has anything to do with freedom. Like Chas Freeman (a brilliant diplomat, one of the US' best), I am convinced that the insane asylum inmates have taken over the bus that was transporting them to the loony bin, and they are driving the bus over the cliff. Unfortunately, we are on the bus too. What is a concerned citizen to do? I I write my Congresswoman and Senators, to support their opposition to the war, I write in this weblog, but I fear that all this writing is just preaching to the converted. The inmates have taken over the bus, and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do to stop them. Instead, we just watch as the bus goes over. I wonder if this is what it was like to watch the troop trains scurry across Europe in August of 1914, knowing that death and destruction were on their way, but feeling powerless to stop them. Suggestions for meaningful action welcomed.

Tryst Between Inmates Brings Pregnancy
(AP)

Tryst Between Inmates Brings Pregnancy
(AP) 04/14/2004 07:46 PM
AP - A female inmate at the Daviess County Detention Center got pregnant while incarcerated there, apparently after crawling through ductwork to meet with a male inmate, jail officials said.

Turkey Blamed for Sickening Fla. Inmates
(AP)

Turkey Blamed for Sickening Fla. Inmates
(AP) 12/29/2003 11:37 PM
AP - Holiday turkey is being blamed for sickening 168 prisoners at a maximum-security prison on Christmas Day.

Palestinian inmates on hunger strike

Palestinian inmates on hunger strike 08/15/2004 09:39 AM
Palestinians held in Israeli jails go on hunger strike to protest at conditions but Israel says they can "starve to death".

Inmates Riot, Set Fires at Colo. Prison
(AP)

Inmates Riot, Set Fires at Colo. Prison
(AP) 07/21/2004 09:38 AM
AP - Inmates rioted and set fires at a privately run prison, destroying one living unit and extensively damaging four others, officials said Wednesday. Several inmates were injured.

Calif. Prison Riot Injures 16 Inmates

Calif. Prison Riot Injures 16 Inmates 12/03/2003 08:41 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 3 2003 6:42PM ET

Guantanamo Inmates Ready to Face
Tribunals (AP)

Guantanamo Inmates Ready to Face
Tribunals (AP) 07/16/2004 05:09 PM
AP - Most of the 594 U.S. prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear willing to go before a tribunal that would give them a chance to convince military officers they have been wrongly detained, the Navy secretary said Friday.

Inmates, Guards Clash at Prison in S.
Iraq (AP)

Inmates, Guards Clash at Prison in S.
Iraq (AP) 04/04/2005 09:34 PM
AP - Prisoners at Iraq's largest detention facility protested the transfer of several detainees deemed "unruly" by authorities, throwing rocks and setting tents on fire in a disturbance that injured four guards and 12 detainees, the military said Monday.

While on Death Row, Inmates Find Freedom
on the Internet

While on Death Row, Inmates Find Freedom
on the Internet 01/24/2004 10:38 PM
New York Times Jan 25 2004 2:52AM GMT

Two Guards Held Hostage by Ariz. Inmates
(AP)

Two Guards Held Hostage by Ariz. Inmates
(AP) 01/18/2004 08:14 PM
AP - Two state prison guards were taken hostage by inmates early Sunday, and negotiators were called in to try to defuse the situation.

Honduran Prison Fire Kills 103 Inmates
(AP)

Honduran Prison Fire Kills 103 Inmates
(AP) 05/17/2004 09:01 PM
AP - An early morning fire at an overcrowded prison in northern Honduras on Monday consumed a cellblock housing gang members, killing 103, many as they slept, and injuring 25 others.

Inmates Use Smuggled Cellphones to
Maintain a Foot on the Outside

Inmates Use Smuggled Cellphones to
Maintain a Foot on the Outside 06/21/2004 04:47 AM
Texas officials learned the seriousness of cellphones being smuggled into prisons when electronic surveillance showed a gang member was making and receiving calls.

U.S. Disputed Protected Status Of Iraq
Inmates

U.S. Disputed Protected Status Of Iraq
Inmates 05/22/2004 02:14 PM
The U.S. military asserted many Iraqi prisoners were not entitled to the full protections of the Geneva Conventions contradicting President Bushs recent statements.

Minister Seeks Communion Wine for
Inmates (AP)

Minister Seeks Communion Wine for
Inmates (AP) 05/17/2004 01:35 PM
AP - Jesus didn't drink grape juice at the Last Supper. A Wisconsin minister says jail inmates who want to take Holy Communion shouldn't either.

Report: Iraq Inmates Ridden Like Animals
(AP)

Report: Iraq Inmates Ridden Like Animals
(AP) 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
AP - Some prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were ridden like animals, fondled by female soldiers, forced to curse their religion and required to retrieve their food from toilets, according to a published report Friday.
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