This Week on NOW: Prisons for Profit + MOYERS: Philippe Sands TORTURE ... more

[L. Coyote]

This Week on NOW: Prisons for Profit
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/index.html

America passed a grim milestone this year: One in every 100 Americans is now behind bars. This week, NOW on PBS investigates the government's trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector, and examines the controversy it's causing. We travel to Colorado, where the debate over prison privatization is boiling over. Should incarceration be incorporated?

In Your State: Prison Costs = Use the Map = http://genesis.thirteen.org/now/shows/419/states-prisons.html
Use our interactive map to find out how many people are behind bars in your state, as well as how much money your state spends on corrections. You can also use the map to find out the ratio of state corrections spending to higher education spending.

Reporter's Notebook: Maria's Tour of a Private Prison
"Later, we went to one of the prison's 'pods,' essentially a wing of the prison, and I spoke to a young security officer there. She showed me a screen from the computerized prison monitoring system. On the screen the prison doors were open, when in reality the doors were shut. 'It's messed up,' she told me..."
» Read the Rest of Maria Hinojosa's Journal = http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/prisons-profits.html


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May 9, 2008 = http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/profile3.html

PHILLIPE SANDS
International lawyer and law professor Philippe Sands, author of TORTURE TEAM, talks about the approval of coercive interrogation by high-level American officials.

In his new book, TORTURE TEAM: RUMSFELD'S MEMO AND THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN VALUES, Philippe Sands draws on official documents and interviews with key players to explain how the U.S. Military went from interrogations strictly regulated by the U.S. ARMY FIELD MANUAL 34-52 to enhanced interrogations that included sleep deprivation, nudity, stress positions, and water boarding.

As Sands explains in an interview with Scott Horton in THE NEW REPUBLIC:

When the administration released the December 2002 and other memos, it told a story that essentially said this: The new interrogation techniques came from the bottom up and had nothing to do with policy decisions driven from the top. I wanted to explore the truth of that account, by trying to talk to as many of the people involved in the decision as I could.

The narrative begins December 2, 2002, the day Donald Rumsfeld signed a memo ..........

ALSO:

CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION = http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/profile.html
The California Nurses Association proposes "CheneyCare" for what ails America.

MELODY PETERSEN = http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/profile2.html
Melody Petersen talks with Bill Moyers about her new book OUR DAILY MEDS, and how drug companies market medication.

[seemslikeadream]

1. Philippe Sands and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3072133300490125416&q=philippe+sands&ei=cYwjSO2dCou05AKRt63CAQ&hl=en



On May 6th the American Strategy Program hosted an event with Philippe Sands, Professor of International Law at University College London and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Colon Powell. Mr. Sands was in DC to testify to the House Judiciary Committee about the findings in his new book, Torture Team, which examines the legal implications of the Bush administration's policy of torture. Col. Wilkerson was on hand for commentary on the subject. The event was moderated by Patrick Doherty, deputy director of the American Strategy program

[Bozita]

2. Bill Moyers is the only guest on with Charlie Rose tonight.

PBS

[L. Coyote]

3. visibility kick

[L. Coyote]

4. East Coast reminder KICK

[L. Coyote]

5. "

[TahitiNut]

6. For every dollar Michigan spent on higher education, $1.19 was spent on corrections.

Only Vermont spent a higher ratio. :puke:

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/419/states-prisons.html#here

[L. Coyote]

7. I'm watching now. 20% of world prisoners in US prisons!!

[L. Coyote]

8. Colorado has doubled prison population in 10 years. They are Rewpublicans!

speaking of staff, etc.

[TahitiNut]

9. Well, isn't THAT a good reason to suspend Habeas Corpus??

:eyes:

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[L. Coyote]

10. The next "prison market profit opportunity" is undocumented workers!

[annabanana]

11. This is a MUST SEE for people who missed the testimony this week.

(everyone else should check it out too)

[L. Coyote]

12. Any links to that?

[annabanana]

14. here's part of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPAGNNsrwUw

[L. Coyote]

20. It is on DU now = VIDEO link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=130304&mesg_id=130304

[flashl]

21. Powerful.

[defendandprotect]

13. Watched some of this last night, until the guy said that there was NO "systemic"

torture in Guantanamo --- !!!

And that probably there is no torture there now . . . !!!

How in the hell would he know?

Sounded more like a white wash . . . and turned it off.

[malaise]

15. Bill Moyer is the only person to cover this hearing

Bravo Bill. Even KO is more interested in the horse race these days.

[Uncle Joe]

16. One of his best programs and that's saying a lot, my only regret is that I didn't see this

thread yesterday to recommend it.

Thanks, L. Coyote.

[malaise]

17. Same here

A superb interview with Sands

[Uncle Joe]

18. I agree, malaise and I thought the CNA segment using the Cheney Ad

as the model for good health care was outstanding as well.

[malaise]

19. Indeed

Moyers was at his best last night.