May 13, 2004

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tsn sent in a link to From Texas to Abu Ghraib: The Bush legacy of prisoner abuse -

While administration officials express shock and outrage over allegations of the torture and murder of Iraqi prisoners by US forces, a deeper look into Bush's stateside prison-system record shows disturbing similarities. {...}

Conditions inside Texan prisons during Bush's reign were so notorious that federal Judge William Wayne Justice wrote, "Many inmates credibly testified to the existence of violence, rape and extortion in the prison system and about their own suffering from such abysmal conditions." {...}

As Texas governor, Bush oversaw the executions of 152 prisoners and thus became the most-killing governor in the history of the United States.

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