[IMC-Boston-Editorial] proposed feature: Tortured Prisoner Fights Back: Abu Ghraib, RI, USA

[Alex Gould]

A scandal that may bring to light more cases of abuse as it develops.

http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/54579/index.php

Prison officials in Rhode Island are worried. Their crimes are being
exposed. Michael Walsh, a 30 year-old construction laborer from East
Providence, RI, is being held in Minimum Security at the Adult
Correctional Institution (ACI) of Rhode Island. On February 18,
Valentines Day, he says that prison guards preformed an anal cavity
search on him. They accused him of smuggling contraband, and in a
depraved act reminiscent of the crimes of Abu Ghraib, forced Walsh to
eat his own feces. Walsh says they then denied him the use of the sink
and a toothbrush all day. Walsh also says that ACI officers beat him on
the face with a telephone book. ...

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