Plus, to spew truly and few about it, I’m not entirely sure how much or how regularly the clutch of these headlines is reaching you, there, in Mexico City.
But one can’t froth giddy.

Enough       I venture       plenty enough.

Thus, some abrupt rustles now
a low plowing toward the more closely shorn fast-forward

Itself a future-hardened herd which requires adding that a mere six months after the Guantanamo facility opened as a detention center the U.S. Department of Defense declared (in a move painfully imitative of their refusal to do civilian body counts in Iraq) that they would henceforth cease separately documenting the occurrences of attempted self-annihilations on their premises. Alternately, all such acts were now to be reclassified into a new undifferentiated and unexamined statistical lump category called “self-injurious behaviors,” also referred to as “manipulative self-abuse.” As at Eastern State, the primary intents behind this sudden “reclassification” gesture included mitigating bad PR, minimizing as much as possible all sense of the severity and scope of what was taking place on site, and propelling any and all culpability in the matter onto the individual prisoners’ bodies as opposed to the outstanding hardships and unrelenting circumstances to which those very persons and their bodies were being subjected inside. This inside itself being one that is notably, and also like unto ESP, renowned for its commitment to solitary isolation techniques and even further (and to a far greater extent than its predecessor) sensory deprivation strategies. Thus, despite these two penal institutions marked distance in geographic space (from Pennsylvania to Cuba) and temporal placement (from 1829 to 2002), one finds an extraordinary degree of similarity in their respective and unrelenting efforts to defend their institutional legitimacy and allegedly unassailable social necessity, as well as in their attempts to favorably reframe public perception of the torturous scenarios occurring daily within their walls.



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