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L'Unità Polunsky del carcere di Livingston, Texas
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INMATES AREN’T THE ONLY VICTIMS OF THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (Story by Alex Hannaford)

September 16, 2014: If you live in Livingston, a town of little more than 5,000 an hour north of Houston, you’re either employed in the timber industry or by the prison. Dave was a truck driver for thirteen years, but when his employer shut down because of the flagging economy after 9/11, he trained as a corrections officer. There’s more money in logging, he says, but corrections provides steadier employment. “Prisons are recession proof,” he says.
But serving as a cog in a machine whose ultimate aim is to destroy human life takes a toll. After eight-and-a-half years working on death row, Dave started having nightmares. He suffered from high blood pressure. “Even the younger guys get high blood pressure working there,” he says. “There were times I’d get to the entrance [of the prison], go through screening and do an about-turn, go back into the parking lot and call in sick.” So Dave transferred from death row.
Prison-reform groups tend to focus on the plight of inmates—their conditions under incarceration, getting them access to legal counsel. One is not naturally inclined to feel sympathy for the enforcers in this draconian system. But working in a crushing environment where violence is the norm, guards are victims as much as victimizers.
“Prison functions in entirely the opposite way from the small, healthy family or community,” says Frank Ochberg, a psychiatrist who sat on the panel that went on to define post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the 1970s and who has served as an expert witness for countless inmates on death row. “It does to a human being what a zoo does to a wild animal.”
More than 25 percent of prison guards suffer from PTSD compared with 3.5 percent of the general population, according to a study by the Desert Waters correctional outreach center in Colorado. Corrections officers commit suicide at more than double the normal rate. They are collateral damage in a system that embodies one of the most devastating uses of state power.
Dave recounts the harrowing story of a fellow officer on death row who five years ago was working a night shift at the Polunsky Unit. During his break, he walked out into the parking lot, climbed into his car, pulled a gun out and killed himself. “He went undiscovered for an hour even though he was in the front row [of the parking lot] at the end spot practically at the entrance to the gate house,” Dave says.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will only confirm that on December 4, 2008, “a correctional officer assigned to the Polunsky Unit was found deceased inside a private vehicle from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” (Source: The Nation, Alex Hannaford, Sept. 16, 2014)

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JAPAN: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR KUDOKAI GANG BOSS
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF 3-YEAR-OLD
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IRAN - Executions for Adultery and Blasphemy in 2023
BANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN BAGERHAT
IRAN - Moein Salahvarzi executed in Ilam on March 11
IRAQ: 5 DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
IRAN - Mansour Mansouri executed in Ilam on March 11
IRAN - Nour-Mohammad Tajik and Abdolbaset … executed in Karaj on March 11
TRINIDAD: EIGHT FORMER DEATH ROW INMATES IMMEDIATELY RELEASED
USA - Top US Nitrogen Gas Producers Ban Use in Executions
SINGAPORE: MAN LOSES APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE FOR TRAFFICKING HEROIN
MYANMAR: JUNTA IMPOSES MULTIPLE DEATH SENTENCES ON ACTIVISTS
IRAN - UN Report Blames Islamic Republic for Mahsa Amini's Death
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IRAN - Hadi Hadi Khanlu executed in Zanjan on March 7
IRAN - Mehdi Gorgij executed in Zanjan on March 7
INDIA: TRANSGENDER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2021 RAPE, MURDER OF INFANT IN MUMBAI
IRAN - Fakhredin Mangur-Nejad and Abbas Dadvar executed in Mahabad on March 7
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IRAN - Farshad Rakhshani executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on March 6
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VIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRADING DRUGS, EYEING 50% PROFIT
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USA - Nebraska. Abolitionist bill fails to advance
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES SIX MOROCCANS TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
INDIA: ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF RAPE-MURDER CONVICT TO 30-YEAR JAIL TERM
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USA - Louisiana. Governor signs HB 6 that expand execution methods

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