Same tactics in Amerikkkan and Iraqi prisons

I have been a prisoner here at Georgia State Prison—AKA "The Bottom"—since June 2001. I have been confined to SMU (Special Management Unit) on high-max for false and fictitious write-ups for assaulting an officer and confined to a 5' by 8' cell with reinforced sold steel doors with padlocks on tray slots.

We are unable to flush our own toilets from inside the cells, and have to depend on security guards to flush toilets "every two hours" from walkway behind our cells. To deprive us of sleep sometimes toilets are flushed only once on each eight hour shift, which leaves feces and urine standing for hours in toilets. Also, to participate in one hour outside recreation, shower, or go to sick-call we have to strip completely naked and are required to: open our mouths, hold hands above our heads, lift testicles, turn around and lift left and right feet to expose soles, and bend over at waist, take both hands and pull buttocks apart to expose anus—all this or be refused above activities or face physical force from Correctional Emergency Response team as harassment.

The practice here in the SMU by requiring us to bend over at the waist or face force, frivolous write-ups, etc. are all intended to degrade prisoners. The same tactics that are used in Iraq are first used here in Amerikkkan prisons.

--A prisoner in Georgia, January 2005