Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Free market capitalism: Fortune 500 companies and privatized *prisons* - Mike Nova's starred items

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via NYT > Anders Behring Breivik by By ALAN COWELL on 4/22/12
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who openly boasted of killing 77 people, seemed to redefine the banality of evil, recast for our time into images of the mundane.


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Anders Behring Breivik to argue for sanity at Oslo trial
BBC News
Anders Behring Breivik is expected to return to the stand in his Oslo trial to argue that he is sane and should not be committed to a mental institution. Breivik has admitted killing 77 people in two attacks last July but denies criminal responsibility ...
Norway killer to refute insanity diagnosisBoston.com
Anders Breivik's Victims -- Also GuiltyHuffington Post

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Anders Behring Breivik Trial: Witnesses Recall Chaos After Norway Killer's Attack
Huffington Post
By KARL RITTER 04/24/12 06:49 PM ET OSLO, Norway — After testifying for five days, Anders Behring Breivik listened silently as others described the mayhem caused by his bombing of Oslo's government district, a scene one witness described as a "war ...

via prison psychiatry - Google Blog Search by Jack Powers on 4/25/12
Florida-based prison profiteer, GEO Group, is getting out of Mississippi. It leaves in its wake what one one federal judge called "a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions"at a youth correctional facility.


East Coast Rapist suspect claims split personality
Inside NoVA
According to the court documents, Thomas was hospitalized for mental health problems as a teen, and while being held at the Prince William-Manassas regional jail once cut his wrists and smeared the blood on the walls of his jail cell.

via NYT > Crime and Criminals by By ANDY NEWMAN on 4/23/12
A man with a gun hid in the bathroom and waited until the restaurant closed before forcing some workers into a freezer.

via prisons - Google Blog Search by Brett Chamberlin on 4/24/12
Marijuana arrests in New York are at an all-time high, with over 50000 arrests taking place last year -- and some people are very happy about that. Private.

via prisons - Google Blog Search by UTMB on 4/25/12
First, it's interesting that it's Fortune 500 companies leasing this prison labor at 'subprime wages' because it was recently reported (I posted about it below) that in 2011, Fortune 500 CEOs made 380 times more than the ...


Has the 'G-Spot' Been Confirmed at Last?
Philadelphia Inquirer
He said he plans to perform similar forensics on the bodies of women of various ages. If Ostrzenski and others can consistently reproduce the discovery, he said, "it may absolutely change our view of how the orgasm is created; it will change the ...

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From political schemer to prison reformer: The life of Chuck Colson remembered - Mike Nova's starred items

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From political schemer to prison reformer: The life of Chuck Colson remembered
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By (ARA) In 1974 the Watergate scandal sent Chuck Colson, White House special counsel and self-described "hatchet man," to federal prison. After experiencing a conversion to evangelical Christianity - a metamorphosis so improbable he later joked that ...
Religion: Why Colson spent Easter in prisonsThe Republic
Chuck Colson fought for the forgottenCNN
John J. Dilulio Jr.: Chuck Colson and Second ChancesWall Street Journal
Sacramento Bee -Washington Post (blog) -National Catholic Register
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Religion: Why Colson spent Easter in prisons
The Republic
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed." This isn't the sermon that many believers hear on Easter, but it's the one that prisoners need to hear, said Chuck Colson back in 1992, ...
Chuck Colson fought for the forgottenCNN
TBN Founder Paul Crouch Sr. Pays Tribute to Charles ColsonSacramento Bee
John J. Dilulio Jr.: Chuck Colson and Second ChancesWall Street Journal
National Catholic Register -Acton Institute (blog) -Gaston Gazette
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Chuck Colson fought for the forgotten
KESQ
If positive influences, like parents, teachers, and coaches, are missing, children will gravitate to something inferior, like drugs or gangs. Colson would often illustrate this with stories of convicts leaving prison only to be handed $100 by the ...

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Anders Breivik's World: How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Anders Breivik's World: How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

04/24/2012

Anders Breivik's World

How Sick Is Norway's Mass Murderer?

Photo Gallery: How Sick is Anders Behring Breivik?
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DPA
Seventy-seven people died in the attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utøya last July. The central question in the trial of the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, is whether or not he is criminally liable. There is much to suggest that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
Can a delusional person be punished for their crimes?

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FRANCE 24

Breivik accuses experts of lies as he pleads for his sanity
FRANCE 24
Anders Behring Breivik, who wants to be found accountable for his massacre of 77 people in Norway last July, has accused a team of psychiatric experts of making things up to prove him insane. AFP - Anders Behring Breivik, who wants to be found ...


Prozess in Norwegen: Breivik: Aussagen in Gerichtsgutachten "erfunden"
Hamburger Abendblatt
Der norwegische Massenmörder Anders Behring Breivik hat ein Gerichtsgutachten zurückgewiesen, das ihn für unzurechnungsfähig erklärt. Angeblich von ihm getätigte Aussagen in Gesprächen mit Gerichtspsychiatern seien „erfunden“, erklärte der 33-jährige ...

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Norway killer to try to refute insanity diagnosis
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Anders Behring Breivik, right, has his handcuffs removed watched by defence lawyer Vibeke Hein Baera in the courtroom in Oslo Wednesday morning April 25, 2012. After testifying for five days, Anders Behring Breivik listened silently Tuesday as others ...


Boston.com

Anders Behring Breivik Trial: Norway Killer Says Insane Diagnosis Based On ...
Huffington Post
By KARL RITTER and JULIA GRONNEVET 04/25/12 11:43 AM ET OSLO, Norway — Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik slammed a psychiatric report that declared him insane, insisting Wednesday it was based on "evil fabrications" meant to portray him as irrational ...
Breivik says psychiatric report deeming him insane is full of 'fabrications'Christian Science Monitor
Breivik's publicity at trial just what he wantedBoston.com
Breivik: Insane diagnosis based on 'fabrications'USA TODAY
The Guardian -New York Daily News
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via anders behring breivik - Google Blog Search by A. Rienstra on 4/25/12
Confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed he is normally a nice person but dehumanisation himself to carry out attacks.

via anders behring breivik - Google Blog Search by The Huffington Post News Editors on 4/25/12
OSLO, Norway — Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik slammed a psychiatric report that declared him insane, insisting Wednesday it was based on "evil fabrications" meant to portray him as irrational and unintelligent. "It is not ...


Breivik says psychiatric experts lie as he pleads for his sanity
China Post
OSLO--Anders Behring Breivik, who wants to be found accountable for his massacre of 77 people in Norway last July, on Wednesday accused a team of psychiatric experts of making things up to prove him insane. Breivik is seeking to convince an Oslo court ...


Breivik, The Press And The Ongoing Myth Of The 'Violent Gamer'
Techdirt
Despite making two completely different comments about these games, the press lumped both games together, resulting in misleading headlines such as this one from the Montreal Times: Anders Behring Breivik trained on video games World of Warcraft, ...


CTV.ca

Breivik says insanity diagnosis based on 'fabrications'
CTV.ca
Anders Behring Breivik in conversation with member of his defence team Tord Jordet in the courtroom in Oslo Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP / Hakon Mosvold Larsen) Accused Anders Behring Breivik talks with a member of his defence team Tord Jordet, ...



Telegraph.co.uk

Norway killer to refute insanity diagnosis
Atlanta Journal Constitution
AP OSLO, Norway — Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is set to return the stand in an attempt to prove to the court trying him on terror charges that he is not insane. Anders Behring Breivik, right, has his handcuffs removed watched by ...
Norway killer to try to refute insanity diagnosisSeattle Post Intelligencer
Anders Behring Breivik trial: police describe 'chaos' after Oslo bombTelegraph.co.uk
Breivik to testify in attempt to prove himself sane in terror trialNewser
San Jose Mercury News
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Norwegians to protest Breivik, singing song he hates
Malaysia Star
OSLO (Reuters) - Thousands of Norwegians will take to the streets of Oslo on Thursday to sing a children's song calling for peace and fraternity, in a protest against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik who has called it Marxist brainwashing.


Breivik: Insane diagnosis based on 'fabrications'
DesMoinesRegister.com
Anders Behring Breivik has admitted killing 77 people on July 22. / Pool photo by Hakon Mosvold Larsen OSLO, Norway (AP) — Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik on Wednesday slammed a psychiatric report that declared him insane as based on ...


Atlanta Journal Constitution

Breivik's publicity at trial just what he wanted
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By VANESSA GERA AP WARSAW, Poland — As Anders Behring Breivik has given shocking and remorseless accounts to a Norwegian court of how he massacred 77 people, his testimony has revived a debate about how much of a public platform mass-murderers should ...

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Dying on the inside
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
As the US Department of Justice mounts an investigation, journalist Matt Stroud describes how 'deplorable' prison conditions can not only exacerbate, but cause, life-threatening mental health problems. In America, the charity Human Rights Watch ...

via NYT > Anders Behring Breivik by By ALAN COWELL on 4/22/12
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who openly boasted of killing 77 people, seemed to redefine the banality of evil, recast for our time into images of the mundane.

via Google News on 4/20/12

In Chilling Detail, Norwegian Gunman Recounts Killings
Voice of America (blog)
In chilling detail, Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik on Friday described how he hunted down and shot to death 69 people last July at a political youth camp on an island outside Oslo. Right-wing extremist Breivik told a court filled with ...

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New Straits Times

In grief, Norway shows its dignity
New Straits Times
By Karl Ritter 0 comments Anders Behring Breivik's (left) testimony was horrifying, but all present in court, including his lawyer Geir Lippestad (right), kept their composure. Reuters pic YOU would have forgiven Norwegians for showing more outrage ...

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Dying on the inside: TBIJ

Dying on the inside: TBIJ

Dying on the inside

April 25th, 2012 | by | Published in Bureau Recommends

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Mentally ill inmates in the US are frequently put in solitary confinement, sometimes indefinitely.
Inmate abuse by prison staff in Pennsylvania has led to at least two suicides, an extensive report by magazine the Nation alleges. As the US Department of Justice mounts an investigation, journalist Matt Stroud describes how ‘deplorable’ prison conditions can not only exacerbate, but cause, life-threatening mental health problems.
In America, the charity Human Rights Watch estimates that up to 19 % of prisoners ‘have psychiatric disorders…and another 15 to 20% require some sort of psychiatric investigation.’
Psychological problems worsen, the charity stated in its 2009 report, Mental Illness, Human Rights and US Prisons, if inmates are placed in isolation for long periods:
‘The stress, lack of meaningful social contact, and unstructured days can exacerbate symptoms of illness or provoke a reoccurrence. Suicides occur proportionately more often in segregation units than elsewhere in prison. All too frequently, mentally ill prisoners decompensate in isolation, requiring crisis care or psychiatric hospitalization. Many simply will not get better as long as they are isolated,’ revealed the charity.
In his detailed and shocking report for the Nation, Stroud explains how the men who committed suicide at SCI Cresson, Pennsylvania, had a history of mental health problems, but neither was given medical treatment. Rather, prison sources say that the two, John McClellan Jr. and James Willett, were physically and mentally abused, held in solitary confinement, and, in the case of McClellan Jr, ‘goaded’ to kill himself.
He told his father that [corrections officers] had threatened to kill him and make it look like a hanging.
While Stroud’s article is a little light on statistics, he does provide strong case-based evidence of the issue. He explains how John McClellan Jr was found hung in his cell on May 6, 2011. His suicide was allegedly a result of years of abuse in prison, and long-term isolation. Word had spread, McClellan said before his death, that he was the son of a police officer. As a result, the inmate said he became a victim of abuse by corrections officers (COs) and other prisoners.
‘Every time he wrote up a grievance…They would come back, write him up for something and put him in the hole sixty days at a time.’ McClellan’s father told the Nation.
Stroud explains: ‘By the time the younger McClellan arrived at SCI Cresson…he was convinced he was going to die. He told his father that COs had threatened to kill him and make it look like a hanging. His mental state was gradually deteriorating, and he was reportedly on medication, although it is not clear what he was prescribed.’
According to the Nation’s sources, the prison authorities were notified of the suicide risk, but did nothing. ‘If he’s going to act on it, he’s going to act on it’, a ward manager allegedly told another inmate.
In March 2012, 24-year-old James Willett also died at SCI Cresson. He had ‘repeatedly requested’ mental health treatment but those requests were denied, claimed a prison source. If there is one criticism of Stroud’s article, it would be that it does not go into the details of Willett’s case, without explaining why.
SolitaryIn 2000, the Pennsylvania prison system introduced a new tactic to deal with delinquency: the Long Term Segregation Unit (LTSU). The LTSU was an isolation programme, to house the most dangerous and disobedient prisoners. The inmates of the LTSU stayed in their cells for 23 hours a day, for up to 36 months. In 2005, the LTSU was replaced with a new program: the Secure Special Needs Unit. Unlike the LTSU, the SSNU was, reportedly, designed to provide prisoners with psychological problems with a safe, secure environment, rather than to be used as a punishment.
However, Stroud says, there is evidence that while the name changed, the methods didn’t. One man kept in solitary confinement, Tracey Pietrovito, was allegedly held in the SSNU for months in conditions that could amount to torture. Stroud describes how Pietrovito had to sleep on concrete, as his mattress was removed.
Related: Deaths in Police Custody – a case to answer on the use of restraint.
Sources also alleged that the guards would ‘refuse to provide him with toilet paper for significant periods-forcing Pietrovito to wipe himself with his hand-and then refused to provide him with soap before he ate his meal, served without utensils.’
Following such claims of abuse, the US Department of Justice instigated an investigation into SCI Cresson and another prison – SCI Pittsburgh. The investigation will consider whether the institutions ‘provided inadequate mental health care to prisoners who have mental illness [and] failed to adequately protect such prisoners from harm’ and whether subjecting prisoners to excessive periods of isolation violated the US eighth amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The Nation believes that the case could be a milestone in the fight to protect the human rights of prisoners, particularly those suffering from mental health problems.
‘The DOJ investigation has the potential to further expose the utter depravity…of the prison system’ Bret Grote of the Human Rights Coalition told the Nation. ‘Instances of cruelty and insanity are deliberately multiplied by government employees as a matter of policy,’ he said.
Read the full report in the Nation here.
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