"Prison systems could not operate without exploiting prison labor; prisoners cook the meals, do the laundry, provide maintenance work, cut the grass, work as clerks and teachers' aides, and much more," said Alex Friedmann, associate director of the Human Rights Defense Center, a nonprofit that publishes Prison Legal News.
In "Convicts," for instance, the godless Soll Gautier, a paranoid and barbarous seventy-eight-year-old plantation owner who exploits the prisoners who work his fields, dies in hellish fear and isolation, unloved and unmourned by his family.
In documents sent to a Washington DC court, he stated: "The primary manner in which this has been done has been by instituting a new search protocol that exploits the prisoners' well-known phobia when it comes to anything that might be construed as sexual contact".
In case anyone deciding whether to see Whirl Inside a Loop (the title refers to fingerprints, of course) is wondering about Scott's exploiting the prisoners' histories, the issue is raised and has apparently been resolved satisfactorily.
But somebody, somewhere is profiting from cheap, exploited-prisoner labour.
So what's surprising about the United States exploiting a prisoner's entomophobia?
A statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian officials of exploiting the prisoner's death to escalate tensions.
Those harsher techniques included hooding; exploiting a prisoner's phobias, sometimes using muzzled dogs in interrogations; removing some of a detainee's clothing; and the use of "minimum physical contact" like poking or grabbing.
They involved using incentives to cooperate, like offering hot showers in the winter, segregation for more than 30 days, good-cop-bad-cop interrogation and an approach called "pride and ego down," which exploits a prisoner's loyalty, intelligence or perceived weakness.
