American Abu Ghraib?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
NPR's Daniel Zwerdling has discovered a pattern of abuse of immigrants in American prisons stretching back to the mid 1990s. Focusing on two jails in New Jersey, he found physical assault and the use of dogs to intimidate.

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