The State Department announced Tuesday that it would cut ties with the security contractor protecting the United States Embassy in Afghanistan after an investigation of allegations that guards engaged in lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters.
On April 20 , 1914 in an attempt to persuade strikers at the Ludlow Mine Field to return to work, company guards, engaged by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other mine operators, and sworn into the state militia for the occasion, attacked a union tent camp with machine guns, then set it afire.
But after the unexpected assault by state troopers, law enforcement officials and prison guards engaged in what a federal court later described as an "orgy of brutality" against the inmates, forcing many to crawl naked over broken glass while beating them with nightsticks.
Last week they were heightened by the broadcast of videos showing prison guards engaged in atrocious acts of torture of inmates.
The prisoners' stories, which could not be independently confirmed, reveal partial breakdowns of order beneath the surface of a still-functioning system, as well as the day-to-day negotiations that prisoners and guards engage in to survive a patchy conflict where neither side is entirely secure.
"Piedmont prison guards have engaged in a pattern of abusive incidents against immigration detainees," the complaint said.
"If my guards had engaged in shooting, unlike the assailants who shot without fearing arrest, they would have been summoned to court and tried," he said.
Senior State Department officials said they were unaware that guards had engaged in that kind of activity at their living quarters at a base in Kabul.
The authorities said the gunmen would have killed far more people had they not been held off by United Nations guards, who engaged the assailants in a fierce gun battle, killing three of them.
Nelson had never been this close to colleagues before, and it took effort for her to let down her guard and engage in KIPP's "team and family" approach.
