What ?Agent Ramos Conditions Far Worse Than Those Experienced by Suspected Terrorists in the Guantanamo Bay?
Question by Beach Girl: What ?Agent Ramos conditions far worse than those experienced by suspected terrorists in the Guantanamo Bay?
A group of congressmen is demanding an investigation into the treatment of two former Border Patrol agents in prison for shooting an admitted drug dealer near the Mexican border, saying the conditions are far worse than those of suspected terrorists being held at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, and Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican — who have championed the fight for Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean — will deliver a letter detailing their concerns today to Attorney General-designate Michael B. Mukasey. More than three dozen House members have signed it.
Ramos is serving his sentence in a medium-security prison in the Southwest. He was transferred from the Yazoo correctional facility in Mississippi earlier this year after suspected gang members — recognizing the high-profile inmate — beat him.
He is unable to serve his sentence in a minimum-security prison camp owing to the 10-year mandatory minimum for unlawful discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. The charge is one issue in their cases under appeal in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Compean is serving out his sentence in an Ohio prison in solitary confinement.
Both men are being held in so-called special housing units (SHU) for their safety, but they are denied privileges that other inmates in the general population are afforded, said Tara Setmayer, communications director for Mr. Rohrabacher.
“The harsh conditions Agent Ramos is forced to endure in solitary is despicable,” said Ms. Setmayer, who visited Mr. Ramos last month.
Ramos has been confined to a single cell for 23 hours a day for the past 10 months — conditions far worse than those experienced by suspected terrorists in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, say the congressional representatives demanding the investigation.Page 1 of 2 next
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NATION/110160069/1001
Best answer:
Answer by Larry
I can believe that. How dare they resist the invasion.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Widow pushes for change in treatment for PTSD
Filed under: New Orleans Drug Treatment
After his prescriptions were altered during a 28-day drug and alcohol rehabilitation program at River Oaks in New Orleans, James McElroy went off to Fort …
Read more on Hattiesburg American
Immigrant laborers in New Orleans testing Obama administration's …
Filed under: New Orleans Drug Treatment
Most of them came to New Orleans to work after Hurricane Katrina. … of a sort because they spoke out against wage theft, unconstitutional treatment, … we're going to go after the violent criminal, the drug dealers and national-security risks first.
Read more on NOLA.com
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
Filed under: New Orleans Drug Treatment
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights … the news in The New York Times andan eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Read more on American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)