Torture in U.S. Prisons

Since 1975, I have served as a human rights advocate on behalf of people in prison throughout the country. I coordinate the Prison Watch Project for the American Friends Service Committee in Newark, which deals with human rights violations concerning prisoners across the United States. Many of the men, women, and children that I take testimony from call their imprisonment "the war at home." So many people are in U.S. prisons because of the congressional "War on Poverty" and the "War on Drugs," both resulting in a war on the poor. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.