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Torture: America's Brutal Prisons

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Posted by Films For Action on Jun. 16, 2009
50 min - Documentary - 2741 Views
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
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