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From: "Mike Mulligan"
Date: Fri May 7, 2004 10:31 pm Subject: American Gulag
Darn –the NYT beat me to the story!May 8, 2004PRISONERSMistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S.By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Why doesn't the horrors Abu Ghraib surprise me? We got a gulag here in the USA. Why doesn't that grab your hearts? Imagine if the prisoner's in Iraq were physically and mentally disable. Imagine if they couldn't understand your order to get undressed and form a pyramid?
I've seen horrific human rights abuse with the community mental and physical services. The majority of the managers and employees would agree with me. The whole system of state and federal oversight has been dead on arrival. You know I tried to drag them into it.
I had written about specific issues on the board. We pay an extraordinary amount of money to house these people per year. We pay so little money for the care giver who actually touches these humans. The employees we get are coming from the bottom of the barrel and have very little educational and professional skills. We'd house animals better than that. If there aren't enough resources in the community –we send them into the prisons
I've seen the gulag here right in my own community. I seen hundreds of young employees involved with this-and many of them can't put themselves in the place of the disabled. It's wide spread.
The media really doesn't want to get involve –because who would want to buy advertisement space next to a pathetic story of the disabled. All segments of our society are involved in this including the politicians.
There is little realization of this but Howard Dean was about ready to get blown out of the water with how he handled the mentally disabled in the state of Vermont. He knew it was coming.
I think it past time that we look at these in isolation within eacheconomic/ military sector –its epidemic and a national cultural problem.
Thanks,
mike mulligan
Hinsdale, NH
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