Feds Run Gulag-Like “Secret Prisons” Within Penal System

With the first one being established in 2007, we can only guess how many other “Communications Management Units” have been founded since then. While the feds insist that only terrorists are kept in the facilities, one wouldn’t be surprised at all if it were revealed that political “undesirables” were also held in them:

“‘The CMUs were opened secretly, and in many people’s opinion, illegally. They didn’t go through any administrative oversight. And only until years later did we start seeing some language describing what these prison units are supposed to do,’ investigative reporter and TED senior fellow Will Potter told The Real News Network in an October interview.

It’s mostly because of Potter’s investigative work into these secret prisons that the public has any idea they exist.

The idea for the secret prisons grew out of Bush administration concerns that under ordinary rules, imprisoned terrorists could communicate with terrorists overseas.

They fit a pattern of other troubling facilities created as part of the war on terror, including ‘black sites’ such as the notorious Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Stare Kiejkuty in Poland.”

Source: Money Morning