Posted on 08/31/2007 12:03:18 PM PDT by kellynla
The U.S. Army is authorized to create civilian prison labor camps on military installations, according to a little-noticed regulation.
The camps are allowed if the request comes from the Federal Bureau of Prisons or state corrections facilities under leasing requirements defined by federal law.
WND's discovery of the regulation comes shortly after Bush administration directives expanding presidential powers during an emergency.
The Army prison camp policy is defined in Army Regulation 210-35, entitled "Installations: Civilian Inmate Labor Camps," signed Feb. 14, 2005, by Sandra R. Riley, then-administrative assistant to the secretary of the Army.
The regulation revises an earlier civilian inmate labor camp regulation signed Dec. 9, 1997, under the Clinton administration.
Ned Christensen, spokesman for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, confirmed to WND the 2005 version of Army Regulation 210-35 is currently valid and fully operative.
The regulation specifies "the Army's primary purpose for allowing establishment of prison camps on Army installations is to use the resident nonviolent civilian inmate labor pool to work on the leased portions of the installation."
The regulations specify Army personnel running the prison camps will prepare an "Inmate Labor Plan" that will comply with 18 U.S.C. 4125(a), governing civilian inmate labor.
That section of the U.S. Code allows the U.S. attorney general to make available to the heads of U.S. departments, including the Army, the services of U.S. prisoners to engage in labor, including "constructing or repairing roads, cleaning, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress."
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please correct the title to read
“Civilian Prisons Coming Soon to U.S. Army Base Near You”
Thanks!
From what I hear California is first in line!
I haven’t heard any such proposal here in CA but we have plenty of room on Camp Pendleton. I still think we should deport the incarcerated foreigners after securing the borders before we spend any more money on more prisons.
Hey, I trust the Army to get more labor and rehabilitation out of prisoners than I do civilian prisons. Camp Pendleton had a pretty large brig, and we never heard a peep. I’m not worried. As a matter of fact, let the Marines do it, and bring it on!!
They are mostly minimum security facilities filled with mostly white collar criminals and nonviolent drug offenders. I don't know when it started, but there was a prison set up in Pensacola in 1990 when I was going through flight school. The prisoners mostly did grounds keeping and manual labor around the base.
I was kind of hoping that Duke Cunningham would get sent there so he could shag balls on the driving range and clean toilets for young student pilots.
Read this sentence carefully. Corsi is trying to make you think this prison statute is part of this emergency powers act, but it isn't. The crack(ed up) team at WND just discovered this regulation that's been in effect for more than a decade and was revised in 2005.
Ooooohhhh, I can hear the black choppers coming for me.
That program has a name. it's called, REX 84 program. Google it.
Would you like to see the Army’s pdf file on this program?
Civilian Inmate Labor Program
I couldn’t find HTML version, thanks. Bookmarked.
Have y’all seen this?
No, haven’t, thank you. Bumping.
It'll still be all three of us...right? lol
Have you ever heard of ‘Operation Cable Splicer’ or Operation Garden Plot?
That’s the plan, fotflol!!
OK, just making sure it was still a go. LMFAO!
Does red lipstick class with an orange jumpsuit?
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