Do you know that a new type of prison, called a Communication Management Unit, has been created in the United States in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois. They are more restrictive of prisoner rights than those of the most vicious and reprehensible prisoners in a supermax prison. Prisoners moved to these CMU's, do not have the right to find out why their prisoner rights have been so severely curtailed and cannot appeal such treatment. The prison system will not reveal the names of the prisoners being treated in this manner and even access to the prisoners' attorneys is more narrowly limited.
It is reported that, because the constitutionality of CMU's was challenged in 2006, the Bureau of Prisons agreed to terminate plans to create them. But later that year, implemented them anyway. The two short videos lay out the structure and operations of the CMU's and examine some prisoner experiences.
For more see: Little Guantanamo and Common Dreams
