Secret Prisons for Muslims and Animal Rights, Environmental Activists

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-04-14 10:38:00 UTC
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Will Potter just posted "Secretive U.S. Prison Units Used to House Muslim, Animal Rights and Environmental Activists" at GreenIsTheNewRed.com. Intro:

The government is using secretive prison facilities on U.S. soil, called Communication Management Units, to house inmates accused of being tied to “terrorism” groups. They overwhelmingly include Muslim inmates, along with at least two animal rights and environmental activists.

Little information is available about the secretive facilities and the prisoners housed there. However, through interviews with attorneys, family members, and a current prisoner, it is clear that these units have been created not for violent and dangerous “terrorists,” but for political cases that the government would like to keep out of the public spotlight and out of the press.

Go read it. It's astonishing.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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