But that never happens!
"High-Ranking Jail Officer Is Convicted of Conspiracy in Beating" by ALAN FEUER
One of the highest-ranking officers at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the large federal jail near Gowanus Bay in Brooklyn, was convicted yesterday of conspiracy in connection with the beating of an inmate in the jail’s high-security special housing unit.
The officer, Capt. Salvatore LoPresti, was also found guilty of covering up the assault.
[I'm stunned (but not tasered)]
The Metropolitan Detention Center has housed some of Brooklyn’s most notorious federal inmates, from terrorists to gangsters. In recent years, it has come under scrutiny for its treatment of inmates, particularly those swept up after Sept. 11, 2001, as part of terror investigations.
[Yeah, 9/11 explains everything away!]
Captain LoPresti, Officer Rosebery and a lieutenant at the jail, Elizabeth Torres, are accused of abusing inmates in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of several Muslim prisoners who say they were mistreated at the jail after being arrested in roundups following the Sept. 11 attacks.
[Yeah, 9/11 explains everything away!]
According to the suit, filed in April 2002 by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal and educational group, at least five Arab and South Asian inmates at the jail were subjected to abuse, including being kept in solitary confinement with the lights on 24 hours a day."
[Hey, AmeriKa is good at torture!]
