What inmates need.Anne-Marie Cusac correctly points out ("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 , USA," July July: see month. issue) that sadism is practiced in American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of prisons. As a prison reformer, I routinely teach and conduct research in American prisons and jails. A prison official recently told me during an orientation, "Don't shake the inmates' hands. Don't get near them. They are not like you and me." I wondered: "Is that supervisor thinking that the inmates are not human?" All prisoners in any jail or prison in the world deserve to develop their positive potential. People commit crimes because they suffer from addictions, mental illnesses, and/or because they were told too many times that they "would never amount to anything." Let us all fund educational programs in jails and prisons so that inmates can learn the necessary skills--social, cognitive, emotional, and moral--to function in and out of prison with dignity. Kimora 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 , New York |
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