Prisoners

Millions of people with mental illness are unable to do everyday things like going shopping, making new friends or applying for jobs, according to a survey conducted by the British mental health charity Rethink. The survey of more than 3,000 people with mental disorders reveals that this includes people you expect to love you unconditionally, your family, (36%), closely followed by employers (35%)

Los Angeles Times Wanted: Female gamer, must take no prisonersLos Angeles Times, CA - 18 hours agoFor fun, she plays World of Warcraft. Romine also plays World of Warcraft and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. At competitions, they're often the only female players … Written by Google Inc. and Powered by WordPress

Yesterday the Hezballah five prisoners were released in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers that were kidnapped almost two years ago before the last Israeli Lebanese war. The deal also included the returning of about two hundred bodies of Palestinians, Lebanese, and other Arabs that died in the Israeli Arab conflict.   Israel said [...]

DEBKA - An anti-government human rights group reported that Syrian security forces have shot dead dozens of Islamist prisoners opposed to the Assad regime to quell a riot staged in the Saydanaya military jail north of Damascus Saturday, July 5. The London-based group quoted a prisoner contacted by mobile phone as reporting Saturday afternoon that the shooting was continuing and inmates had climbed

I’m mixing my movie metaphors, I’m afraid. The headline is a reference to Dr. Strangelove, but an article in today’s New York Times is more reminiscent of The Manchurian Candidate. Well, part of it, anyway. The part where the Chinese commandant brainwashes Americans such as Laurence Harvey (never mind that accent) and Frank Sinatra. I don’t know if Richard Condon had seen the article title

RAMALLAH - PalestineNews : Lawyer Buthaina Duqmaq, the head of the Mandela institution for human rights and political prisoners, said that the Israeli prisons authority has embarked suddenly on the transfer of all female Palestinian prisoners in section 11 in the Talmond prison to the notorious Damon prison in Haifa without giving reasons. Lawyer Duqmaq explained that the Talmond administration d

In the last two days a lot of discussions were held about the Israeli kidnapped soldiers and the Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners that were asked to be released by Hamas and Hezbollah in order to return the Israeli soldiers. The Israeli government refused to release any Palestinian prisoners in the Hezbollah deal but said that it [...]

- Scott Miller We are in deep trouble in this nation. We have a judicial system that is out of control, and there is no quick remedy in sight. The latest blow to our Constitution came this week when 5 rogue justices of the Supreme Court decided to give terrorists detained on foreign land the same [...]

The Jerusalem Post - More than 600 prisoners escaped during a brazen Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and destroyed a two-story police checkpoint, a police official said Saturday. At least nine police were killed.The complex attack late Friday included a truck bombing at the main gate, a suicide bomber who struck a back wall

Gitmo Was Going To Be Shut Down AnywayHostages Of Terrorists Don't Have Rights...The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detention at the US military base in civilian courts, dealing a stiff rebuke to the Bush administration. "The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times," the court said in its his

This is a major victory for the prisoners and yet another slap in the face from the court to the Bush administration.WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.[...]Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are des

  Filipino Prisoners These guys have a seriously shitty life, so I guess that this is a nice way to take a break and let lose after being forced to weed the prison yard all day. Anyway it is a long video but gets REALLY fucking good… Please please watch it… Oh and notice the balding tranny choreographer… [...]

Regarding the You Tube video with 1000 Filipino Prisoners doing an interpretive dance to Laura Branagans Gloria…. Pink: Did you see this…. On Perezhilton? So fucking funny Timothy: Dude– you’d be worshipping Laura Branagan thru interpretive dance, too if her voice meant a half hour’s break from eating mystery meat and getting gangraped in the shower by [...]

Believe it or not the Airlines transport prisoners fairly often. Most passengers would not even know they are on board. They are usually in street clothes and always escorted by at least one armed guard, who is also in street clothes. The prisoner is always shackled at the feet and many times has handcuffs on. On the first leg of my trip Wednesday we had a prisoner being extradited to a federal pr

Foprme Guantanamo Bay detainee, Sami Ali-Haji, claimed certain Yemeni inmates at the United States military prison in Cuba, have gone clinically insane because of “hallucinogenic pills” they were forced to take by guards. Ahmed Arman a lawyer with the human rights organization, the National Organization for defending rights and Freedom(HOOD), says “I have been told [...]

God's wonderful offer of salvation reaches everywhere, including prisons. Many men and women have found spiritual freedom behind bars.At the annual dinner of a prison ministry in Muskegon, Michigan, Chaplain Mel Rikse introduced two special guests: ex-cons who had found freedom in Christ. The first was a middle-aged, respectable woman whose home had been turned into a dope house by so-called frien

Police officers at British prisoners increasingly are becoming concerned over the possibility that young Muslim prisoners might become radicalized by radical extremeist groups. A report, written by the Prison Service’s Diectorate of High Security, describes fear and instability at several British prisoners which is leading to a state in which Muslim gangs might be taking [...]

From the greatest prisoners on earth, the very same one who produced the ever famous Thrillervideo, comes Soulja Boy and MC Hammer. I was convinced that Soulja Boy was gone, and happy about it, but I suppose I will cut them some slack given that prisons, especially in the Philippines, probably don't get the hot new jams as quickly as we do back here in the real world. If you are curious, these

The US government should account forall the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIADetention,” contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from aPalestinian former detainee who was released from custody last year.Human Rights Watch has also se

The following is a list of persons believed to be in U.S. custody as “ghost detainees” -- detainees who are not given any legal rights or access to counsel, and who are likely not reported to or seen by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The list is compiled from media reports, public statements by government officials, and from other information obtained by Human Rights Watch. Huma

Melanie Taylor should feel comfortable behind bars: her participation in a tax fraud scheme with prisoners will likely land her in prison. Taylor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to tax fraud charges stemming from a scheme that she ran with inmates at the Maryland Department of Corrections and other prisons. The tax losses are [...]

The new British immigration system, whereby would-be immigrants from outside the European Union must prove their usefulness, is going to have some unexpected disadvantages. The Economist reports what many already knew - immigrants from outside the EU are doing jobs that the British either cannot or will not do. This is not a case of Polish plumbers, but rather Russian ballet dancers and Indian hor

This is something that most people would go like “Whoa!”. Life it seems more ironic than ever but what the heck, it is a good video, just have an open mind, you might learn new things. It just show that the most little things are the most fascinating. So, don’t question one’s perception of art and skill ’cause [...]

Taxi drivers in Perth say security screens would make them feel like prisoners.   A group representing taxi drivers in Western Australia says it does not want security screens installed in cabs. (...)

Source: Reuters Somehow I don’t think this program of dancing prisoners out of the Phillipines’ is gonna catch on in notoriously violent prison Rikers Island located in NYC. By... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Prisoners dance during an exercise program at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in Cebu City, south of Manila, April 26, 2008. The prisoners' dancing exercises were made famous after a video of them was posted on the Internet in 2007.

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from [...]

Carla Del Ponte, the ex-chief prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, has unleashed a storm of recrimination with allegations of a trade in human body parts in Kosovo and Albania after Nato bombed Serbia in 1999. Del Ponte claims, based on what she describes as credible reports and witnesses, that Kosovan Albanian guerrillas transported hundreds of Serbian prisoners into northern Albania where they were killed, and their organs "harvested" and trafficked out of Tirana airport. The Kosovan government, now headed by the former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci, dismisses the claims as untrue, while Serbia and Russia are demanding a war crimes investigation into the allegations. Del Ponte, now a Swiss ambassador, has been ordered to keep silent by the Swiss government. The allega

The U.S. war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay are running into a new obstacle: boycotts by the defendants. Three men accused of being al-Qaida operatives have now chosen to boycott their upcoming trials. More defendants are expected to do the same as the military attempts to prosecute dozens of prisoners at the isolated, high-security U.S. base overlooking the Caribbean. At pretrial hearings this week, two men, a Saudi and a Yemeni, denounced the tribunals as a sham and said they would not appear for future hearings. Defense attorneys say they could face sanctions from the bar associations in their home states if they don't uphold the wishes of their clients. ~ read on... ~  

Tomorrow in the Rose Garden, President Bush is expected to sign the Second Chance Act, which will provide $165 million in annual funding to help release and re-integrate prisoners into society: Today, as a legacy of [80s and 90s “get tough”] policies, not only are record numbers incarcerated, but also about 700,000 state and federal prisoners are released annually, many of them with little education or employment prospects and destined to be imprisoned again within a few years. In a sharp change in attitudes about incarceration, many states and private groups have recently experimented with “re-entry” programs to help released prisoners fit back into their communities and avoid new crime. The strategy will get a major boost this week. First introduced in 2005, the Second C

Gov. The sluggish economy is being blamed for a controversial proposal that is sure to have many Americans up in arms. From Coast to Coast state governments are proposing to release inmates that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

LOL wow.Here's 1 guys comment at global grind:neothinker"On a further note! those who have commented that these prisoners are "BAD," does not mean that they should be dehumanized. Furthermore, the only reason why these men are in prison is because of Global Imperialism, Western Colonization, and Bureaucratic Capitalism! People can be helped, people can change, and people can LEARN. The prison industrial system does NOT ALLOW for any form of change, self-growth, education, etc. The prison system is designed to make money. Prisoners ARE MODERN DAY SLAVES. JUST LIKE THE ONES IN THE U.S. For example, prisoners today make 15 cents an hour doing hard manual labor, and by the end of the week when they want to call home to speak to their child, wife, brother, mom, dad, or whoever, they won't have

LegalView Updates Mesothelioma Information Blog with Details of Ohio Prisoners' Exposure to Asbestos LegalView readers were recently informed of a Ohio prison, opened in 1966, that had tested positive for asbestos after prisoners from the jail sent samples of insulation to a lawyer. Asbestos fibers and dust can cause an incurable form of lung cancer known as mesothelioma. Denver, CO (PRWEB) January 29, 2008 -- LegalView.com, your source for everything legal on the web, has updated its mesothelioma blog, alerting readers to an Ohio prison that has tested positive for asbestos. Chillicothe Correctional Institute, which was opened in 1966, had tested positive for the presence of asbestos after prisoners secretly sent insulation and dust found in their housing areas to an outside

Hey pal ,do you know anything about prisoners of war.They are those unsung war heroes who are forgotten as the days progress.Those people who laid down everything to safeguard our families.Speaking about them,they are those brave soldiers who are caught inside the enemy border lines during the war.Those soldiers who penetrate into the enemy region to get their guts out.Those few men who manage to do the damage but fail to make it back to their homeland.They are caught by the enemy and are sent to gallows.And from then their saga of pain and sufferings commence.As for us we tend to forget those war heroes.For those brave soldiers who sacrifice their lives during the war while fighting for their country the Government acknowledges their sacrifice and does what so ever it can do to help their

1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says:For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.Even worse, if you look at the chart on the right, the criminal (in)justice system is disproportionately imprisoning minority populations, and specifically African American populations. The United States has a problem. And the problem is throwing too many people into prison. I have talked about this at length before (here, here - we have a criminal (in)justice system that f

Americans are putting more and more of their population in jail each and every year. For the first time in history 1% of society or 1 in every 100 people is in jail. This mass amount of people indicates a more negative time in history and huge burden on each of our wallets. The new “me, me, me” culture is destroying America and states are neglecting other important aspects of their budgets.According to a Pew Center report total cost for 50 states is around 49 billion dollars, which is six times the amount the country spends on higher education. The report states that 2.3 million people are held in jail and that the number is higher then any other country in the world. Americans are increasingly finding themselves incarcerated and breaking the law. States are learning to be more creativ

Georgia prisoners have filed a class-action lawsuit against corrections officers for allegedly beating and torturing the inmates. The lawsuit tells a story of routine beatings of restrained inmates along with deprivation of food and water throughout the state. The charges also allege that over 40 guards sought to cover up the beatings by denying photographs of [...]

Not nearly as intrusive as it first sounds, the Body Orifice Security Scanner (BOSS) is a chair-shaped mobile metal detector that officials are considering installing in every prison in England and Wales. (more…) Body Scanning chair, Gadgets, General, Images, Technology News, Woodhill jail

It has been reported that Blake Fielder-Civil may be targeted by fellow prisoners who are unhappy about the way he treats his wife Amy Winehouse. Apparently Prison officers are expecting trouble after Amy became implicated in Blake’s alleged trial-fixing plot this week. A prison source has said that “If Blake’s got Amy involved in this; he’s in a lot of trouble. Prisoners are very protective of their women.” Blake will be spending Christmas in prison after being remanded in custody until January 18. What do you think the out come will be in this case? source Written by Kerry for Product ReviewsIn Sections: Celebrity News, News

In another shoddy act of contempt for the public, Ehud Olmert is going to release as many as 450 terrorist prisoners, and even pledging not to build "new settlements". There was a special demonstration held today at the Rose Garden opposite the prime minister's office, calling to release Jewish prisoners and not terrorists. Why exactly are innocent Jews being incarcerated while potentially

The Star Tribune had a very positive article in the paper: “More than 3,000 trained prisoners are earning $1 an hour, and time shaved off their sentences, for helping fight California’s wildfires.” The article was extremely positive, interviewing an inmate and how he’s benefited from the experience, as well as well as the department of corrections who point out that it’s “saving state taxpayers an estimated $80 million per year.” What’s not discussed or addressed, is whether or not the very act of prison labor is ethical. I don’t know if I’ve written about this before, but John Perkins mentioned it a few times at CCDA and it renewed my passion to talk about it. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world with 1.6 million of our citizen’s in prison. It also so happens a disproportionate amount of those prisoners are minorities, you need only look at those exonerated to realize that prejudice

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When I get home from work one of my routines is to check the answering machine to see if anyone had called.  Indeed someone had called me.  I listened to the message and it was a recording from the County Correctional Facility asking if I would accept a collect call from a prisoner.  I don’t know anyone in jail so I could not figure out who would have tried to call me.  Then I thought maybe my friend The Big Fez had been picked up by the cops and was using his one call to talk to me.  As far as I know he has never been in trouble with the law but there is always a first time for everything.  I called his house and he answered.  I told him I was checking to make sure he was not in jail.  He wasn’t.  He said sometimes people in jail will call random people to see if they will answer.  Maybe that was what happened or maybe they dialed the wrong numebr in any case to the guy in the County Correctional Facility, sorry I missed your call. 

I keep hearing a lot of talk about streets opening up the Allied area so that through the middle of Allied Drive, there would be another street that goes through our neighborhood creating a pathway between our neighborhood and the rest of the Dunn's Marsh community. Many individuals are vehemently against this road, and following is a summary of reasons I have heard at various neighborhood association and public city meetings:1 - The streets are already very narrow and the open pathway would increase traffic and residents don't want any more cars coming through their quiet street.2 - It would be so expensive and as city tax payers, many individuals feel they have the right to say no on the grounds that it would just seemingly be irresponsible use of tax dollars, and that there are better things to spend money on.3 - The individuals that tend to speed and race down Allied are thought to potentially speed down the newly open street as well, and who would want that?4 - And lastly, perh

Some dozens of bloggers, especially Moroccan ones, joined the initiative « Let’s blog usefully » (aka let’s blog useful) to blog about young Moroccan prisoners. Children under the age of 18, who had committed some kind of delinquency, pay for it in prison. Making their stay in prison better is the first worry of the AACRPE 5 Association of Friends of Reform Centers and Childhood Protection), help make them reintegrate smoothly into the society is its second worry. These kids need – among others- psychological support, education to not lose completely the time they spend in prison, and -above all- a society that cares for them once they get their freedom. What’s this freedom worth if they find – once out of prison – hostility in the air? What will be the difference between prison and a society that does not want them in? These children have the right to have friends, dream of making a career and live their lives! We do not want them to feel that the society is abando

James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series now numbers 16 novels and is my all-time favorite detective series. I love the way that Robicheaux has changed over the years and how the 16 books can be so effectively read as one long story. This YouTube clip is the trailer for the 1996 movie made from the second book in the series, Heaven's Prisoners (published in 1988).

Please help keep "Book To Prisoners" going. Buy any book from Amazon.com and "Books To Prisoners" will earn a referral fee of 5%, which in turn helps them pay for postage to send books to prisoners. Below is a direct link to Amazon.com from "Books To Prisoners" website."Books To Prisoners" (BTP) is a Seattle-based, all-volunteer, non-profit group that sends free books to prisoners in the United States.BTP believes that books are tools for learning and opening minds to new ideas and possibilities. By sending books to prisoners, they hope to foster a love of reading and encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-improvement.Founded in the early 1970s and sponsored by Left Banks Books, BTP receives 600 to 800 requests for books each month. Volunteers work two evenings a week opening letters, finding books in their collection that correspond to the request, and wrapping and mailing parcels. Because of continuing backlog of requests, prisoners sometimes wait up to six months to receive the

Admittedly, I got a kick out of the videos of the Cebu inmates tightly choreographed routines to Thriller and Radio Ga-Ga.  It was more from the total spectacle of the huge number of people all in sync than the fact that they were prisoners. This ABC News story shes some light on the prison.  Is the dancing really building morale or are the prisoner being forced to perform for the amusement of the warden? YouTube DirektLink

By Dick Morris - The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up at his hide-out in the town of Zhob in southwestern Baluchistan Province in Pakistan, rather than surrender to government forces. But what was he doing commanding Taliban troops in the first place? Mehsud had been captured by American forces in northern Afghanistan in December 2001 and sent to the Guantanamo Detention Center.The reason he was able to resume his duties as a Taliban commander is because we released him from Guantanamo in March 2004.Why on earth did we free Mehsud in the first place, permitting him to go back to his day job as a guerilla and terrorist leader? The answer is as obvious as it is depressing: pressure from human rights activists and their journalistic accomplices throughout the world. More...

Scholars urge Bush to ban use of torture Presidential Scholars students presented President Bush with a letter asking him to stop torturing terror suspects held by the United States. Bush hadn’t heard about the letter beforehand, and was surprised by the action. Part of the letter read: “We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants.” Deputy press secretary Dana Perino said of the scene, “The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights.” I just can’t stand it. Bush says we don’t torture, when we have evidence and eye-witness accounts of when U.S. soldiers tortured prisoners. He also says we don’t p

CanWest News Service and the Canadian National Post reported Wednesday that Paris Hilton’s parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, reportedly cut in line ahead of others prison visitors in order to get in to see their daughter sooner. Naturally, this report prompted more complaints that Paris, the heiress, is indeed receiving special treatment at the jail. What is it with the Hilton family? Why do over

“Within societies, individuals and groups representative of various strands of thought compete to gain influence over the society and to direct that society in the direction they desire - shaping it to match the form and thrust of their own minds, their own thoughts. So in a sense competing ideas, competing thoughts come into play [...]

Huckabee: ‘Most’ Prisoners In The U.S. ‘Would Love’ To Be In GuantanamoExcerpt:"Later, on CNN’s Late Edition, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) expressed his disagreement with Powell about closing Guantanamo, saying “most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo and less like the state prisons that people are in in the United States.”Pressed by host Wolf Blitzer to address the fact that “detainees are being held, by and large, without charges, without any evidence,” which is “causing a smear on the U.S. reputation,” Huckabee said it didn’t matter because hypothetically, “if we let somebody out” they could “come and fly an airliner into one of our skyscrapers.” Watch it:"http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/11/huckabee-gitmo/Alex

 A video has been released of the kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston. “The EU has no strategy over how to deal with this new Russia,” while Russia claims that the US is starting an “arms race.” Meanwhile, Western European leaders such as Merkel, Sarkozy, and (soon-to-be Prime Minister?) Gordon Brown seem to be more pro-American than European leaders have been for quite some time. As DNA evidence continues to exonerate wrongly convicted prisoners, what do states owe them? Canadian troops to rotate out of Afghanistan? Conservative Catholics take on Giuliani. And finally… Today in Canadian History: June 1st, 1916… …prohibition began in Manitoba, a step taken by both Alberta and British Columbia shortly thereafter. Eleven June 1sts later, on 6/1/1927, Ontario’s government ended its prohibition, selling liquor to any adult in possession of a two dollar permit. Ontario’s breweries and distilleries had remained open and operating throu

from The Smoking Gun  Torture, Al-Qaeda Style Drawings, tools seized from Iraq safe house in U.S. military raid MAY 24–In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like “blowtorch to the skin” and “eye removal.” Along with the images, which you’ll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here. The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense, also include a picture of a ramshackle Baghdad safe house described as an “al-Qaeda torture chamber.” It was there, during an April 24 raid, that soldiers found a man suspended from the ceiling by a chain. According to the military, he had been abducted from his job and was being beaten daily by his captors. In a raid earlier this week, Coalition Forces freed five Iraqis w

Book Description ISBN-1576752887 This timely book expands on Viktor Frankl's seminal Man's Search for Meaning, examining the book's concepts in depth and widening the market for them by introducing an entirely new way to look at work and the workplace. Alex Pattakos, a former colleague of Frankl's, brings the search for meaning at work within the grasp of every reader using simple,

(ADNKI).- The US military has cleared as many as 85 Guantanamo prisoners for release but they are still at the prison camp because they have no where to go. Only three have gone home. Eighty-two remain at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as US officials try to find a country that would accept them. In many cases, the prisoners' countries do not want them back. Yemen, for instance, has refused to accept some of the 106 Yemeni nationals at Guantanamo. US laws prevent the deportation of people to countries where they could face torture or other human rights abuses. Virtually, all the prisoners at Guantanamo come from countries that the State Department has cited for records of human rights abuses. There are 17 Chinese Muslim separatists who have been cleared for release but fear they could be executed for political reasons if returned to China. Compounding the problem are persistent refusals by the United States, its European allies and other countries to grant asylum to prisoners wh

NEARLY half the prisoners in jail in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim province of Aceh have escaped after a mass breakout involving more than 100 convicts. Some 108 inmates out of 238 in the state jail escaped yesterday after a gang of 15 took one prison guard hostage at knifepoint, the warden Jalil said.

I am really sort of surprised that the EU has backed Britain on this. In theory they are supposed to support each other against such blatant aggression but the Euro socialists normally seem to have such a soft spot for radical Islam. Maybe France in particular and Germany to a lesser extent are finally seeing what a real cancer radical Muslims have become in their countries. France has more Muslims immigrants than America has illegal's from south of the border and at least our illegal's are only stealing all our social service dollars and not trying to behead or blow us up. Sooner or later we are going to have to face radical Islam not just in Iraq, Iran or Syria. We will be facing them in suburban America not in suicide airliners but face to face in the streets much as they have in France the last 2 years. These are a people and culture that time has forgotten. Radical Islam has more in common with the Visigoths or Vandal hordes than modern day America. I just hope we donÂ’t wait to

US: Secret CIA Prisoners Still MissingWashington Should Reveal Fate of People ‘Disappeared’ by US(New York, February 27, 2007) – The US government should account for all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention,” contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a Palestinian former detainee who was released from custody last year. Human Rights Watch has also sent a public letter to US President George W. Bush requesting information about the fate and whereabouts of the missing detainees. “President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners ‘disappeared’ by the CIA whose fate is still unknown,” said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “The question is: what happened to these people and where are they

Question: What concrete steps is the State Department engaging in to advance the release of political prisoners and promote human rights in Belarus?Answer: We take every opportunity to urge the Belarusian authorities to free all persons jailed on politically motivated charges. President Bush reinforced this commitment to the people of Belarus in his 2007 State of the Union message. Within the last year, the United States has taken numerous measures to pressure Belarusian President Lukashenka to release political prisoners.This week, the Department of State met with a delegation of Belarusian opposition political leaders and civil society activists to discuss further steps that the United States might take to support the defenders of freedom and democracy in Belarus. This delegation included Irina Kozulina, the wife of Belarusian political prisoner Aleksandr Kozulin, and Serhei Matskevich, a former political prisoner.In January 2007, President Bush signed into law the Belarus Democracy

Indonesia should immediately release 18 political prisoners being held in Papua province, a New York-based human rights group said. At least 18 people have been imprisoned for terms of up to 20 years for "peaceful acts of freedom of expression and opinion," Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday. Many others are believed to be detained on similar charges.

This world is, in a way, a projected image of the human mind. If some characteristics are more prevalent in the world, perhaps it is because those minds, those societies with such characteristics exert greater effort, leverage more resources, and therefore exert greater influence....

CPDRC Inmates dance the ‘Jumbo Hotdog’ by The Maskulados. Rough English translation: If you really want to follow me: Jumbo Hotdog. Can you take me? Can you handle me? I don’t know why they sing this is prison…or wait, maybe I do. Bookmark to:

Filmed on August 6, 2007 at the Cebu Capitol.  They performed Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” The Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” & Queen’s “Radio Gaga.”  The inmates of CPDRC performed a surprise number in front of Capitol. This performance was a request by the inmates as their contribution to the 438th Founding anniversary ...