the wackenhut detention center and wackenhut in general
i knew guantanamo wasn’t big enough for this war on terror, but i assumed we’d build camps in canada to keep the detainees “off american soil” and away from the judicial system. nah. looks like we picked new york – camp wackenhut.
200 locked away & under the radar [new york daily news, august 19, 2004]“Most of them were picked up in the aftermath of 9/11 and have been held without criminal charges or due process and, in some cases, without access to a lawyer,” Khan added. “The food is insufficient and inadequate, and even though some of the detainees have heart conditions or suffer from diabetes and ulcers, medical care is practically nonexistent.”
more on this story from democracy now and the hindustan times. don’t expect a lot of major-network coverage in the united states.
i also found a story about what it takes to get a congolese refugee out of the wackenhut detention center.
if you’d like a job, drop by the wackenhut career center, and you, too, can be in a position to abuse detainees, or maybe tattle on someone else that is. wackenhut is so good, they’ve got a whole website run by a union to keep track of their newsworthy activities. one interesting example has the company that runs security hired to test security – so we can invoke the whole “fox guarding the henhouse” line.
[core lead via boingboing]
