Prisons; inside the new America; from Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib, 2d ed.1556435495Prisons; inside the new America; from Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib See Abu Ghraib prison and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The city of Abu Ghraib (BGN/PCGN romanization: Abū Ghurayb; أبو غريب in Arabic) in the Anbar Governorate of Iraq is located 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of , 2d ed. Matlin, David. North Atlantic Books 2005 143 pages $14.95 Paperback HV9471 Beginning in 1985, writer Matlin spent a decade teaching in a college-level prison education program in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State. What he witnessed there at Vernooykill Creek gave the lie to George W. Bush's assertion that the torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison The Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب; also Abu Ghurayb) is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi) west of Baghdad. was the result of a few soldiers who had "disregarded our values." Matlin describes his experiences while teaching in prison, mixing his personal anecdotes of the degradation and abuse of the American penal system with analysis of the growth of the American prison-industrial complex The prison-industrial complex refers to interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities, such as prison guard unions, construction companies, and surveillance technology vendors, who some people believe are more concerned with making more . ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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