Comments for Monsters Among Us: Living in a Torture State at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:44:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2188-monsters-among-us-living-in-a-torture-state.html#comment-2777 For all of its blustering ignorance of human nature the NYPD report "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat" contained an inadvertent and dangerous truth buried deep down inside of it. Prison is "A Radicalizing Cauldron". "Prisons can play a critical role in both triggering and reinforcing the radicalization process. The prison’s isolated environment, ability to create a “captive audience” atmosphere, its absence of day-to-day distractions, and its large population of disaffected young men, makes it an excellent breeding ground for radicalization." So I have to ask, what does this mean for America with its ever growing world record prison population? An ever growing population that the New York Times characterized just last January as breeding a permanent "felon caste" in America. "Worse still, the country has created a growing felon caste, now more than 16 million strong, of felons and ex-felons, who are often driven back to prison by policies that make it impossible for them to find jobs, housing or education." NYT So one wonders why America pursues a drug war policy that gives our nation this world record prison population. SEE: U.S. drug war prisons: "A Radicalizing Cauldron" http://independentsofamerica.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-drug-war-prisons-radicalizing.html - a guest Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:27:21 +0100