Civilian prison camps on Army installations

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Army Reg #210-35: Civilian prison camps on Army installations

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From: Richard Moore <rkm-at-quaylargo.com>
Date: 04 Apr 2006
Subject: Army Reg #210-35: Civilian prison camps on Army installations
To: cj-at-cyberjournal.org, renaissance-network-at-cyberjournal.org


Friends,

I've included below some excerpts from this Army Regulation,
along with the URL to the full, official PDF version.

I've gotten lots of reports from right-wing sources about
detention centers being set up on remote military bases. I
can never tell what to believe and what not to believe from
such sources, so I don't post much of it. Here we have an
official document, from an Army website, describing the
establishment and management of such centers, apparently on
a wide-scale basis.

What is being described here, quite explicitly, are slave
labor camps, to be set up on military bases, providing free
labor to accomplish unspecified "tasks". When we take into
account Abu Ghraib and top-level approval of torture, we
might ask what distinguishes these labor camps from
concentration camps? We might note here that the Nazi
concentration camps were primarily slave labor camps (See:
"The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial
Dynasty that Armed Germany at War", by William Manchester-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316529400/).
American companies, including those controlled by Prescott
Bush, used this slave labor. That's why we don't hear much
about it in media accounts of the Holocaust.

As I see it, these camps are the 'second punch' from the
fist of fascism, the first punch being the Patriot Acts and
the general suspension of the Constitution and the rule of
law, both domestic and international. In a history of these
times, written in a post-fascist era, if there is to be one,
these steps toward fascism will be just as obvious as were
the acts of the Nazis in the histories we read. Those steps
weren't so obvious, however, to the Germans at the time, nor
are they so obvious to many of us now. 911 will be
remembered in our imagined history account for what it was:
a replay of the Reichstag Fire. School children will be
unable to understand how seemingly intelligent citizens
could have been so credulous as to believe in the Bin Laden
conspiracy theory, it being so obviously absurd.

rkm

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http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf

Army Regulation 210-35

Civilian Inmate
Labor Program

Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
14 January 2005
UNCLASSIFIED

Chapter 1
Introduction
1-1. Purpose
This regulation provides Army policy and guidance for
establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian
prison camps on Army installations. Sources of civilian
inmate labor are limited to on- and off-post Federal
corrections facilities, State and/or local corrections
facilities operating from on-post prison camps pursuant to
leases under Section 2667, Title 10, United States Code (10
USC 2667), and off-post State corrections facilities
participating in the demonstration project authorized under
Section 1065, Public Law (PL) 103-337. Otherwise, State
and/or local inmate labor from off-post corrections
facilities is currently excluded from this program.


1-5. Civilian inmate labor programs
a. Civilian inmate labor programs benefit both the Army and
corrections systems by-
(1) Providing a source of labor at no direct labor cost to
Army installations to accomplish tasks that would not be
possible otherwise due to the manning and funding
constraints under which the Army operates.
(2) Providing meaningful work for inmates and, in some
cases, additional space to alleviate overcrowding in nearby
corrections facilities.
(3) Making cost-effective use of buildings and land not
otherwise being used.
b. Except for the 3 exceptions listed in paragraph 2-1d
below, installation civilian inmate labor programs may use
civilian inmate labor only from Federal corrections
facilities located either off or on the installation.


2-1. Policy statement
d. However, there are 3 exceptions to using State or local
civilian inmate labor from off-post corrections facilities-
(1) Section 1065, PL 103-337, allows the Army to conduct a
demonstration project. This demonstration project tests the
feasibility of providing prerelease employment training to
nonviolent offenders in a State corrections facility. The
demonstration project is limited to 3 Army installations.
The 3 Army installations participating in the demonstration
project may use inmates from an off-post State corrections
facility.
(2) Army National Guard units leasing facilities from the
Army or occupying State-owned land or facilities may use
inmates from an off-post State and/or local corrections
facility.
(3) The prohibition against use of State and/or local
civilian inmate labor from off-post corrections facilities
does not apply to Civil Works projects where the Army has
statutory authority to accept voluntary contributions in the
form of services from State or local governments. If
contributed, inmate services are combined with materials or
services paid for with Federally appropriated funds; the use
of civilian inmate labor must also comply with the
provisions of EO 11755. The use of civilian inmate labor
under these exceptions must still comply with the
requirements of this regulation.
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