Annoted Bibliography

Topic Question: Are prisoners being protected under the Cruel and unusual punishment (amendment 8)?
Sandalow, Mark. "American treatment of prisoners assailed." San Francisco Chronicle. 26 May 2005.

Mark Sandalow is a reporter for the San Fransisco Chronicle and is a well respected political contributor to the paper. This article Sandalow says that "U. S. behavior grants a license to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity." He also says that prisoner abuse in other countries such as Sudan and London are worsening. Interviews were done with prisoners and it was reported that countless numbers of beatings, humiliation and sexual abuse. Sandalow goes on to interview John Podesta who was former President Bill Clinton's chief of staff who said "The way we've treated prisoners in our custody is not only counter to our values -- it's a strategic and tactical blunder...'' He goes on to say millions beyond millions of cases are being reported of assualt, rape and abuse in prisons by fellow prisoners and even guards in and outside of the U.S and nothing is being done about it.

Phee, D. Ralph, The Treatment Of Prisoners-Legal, Moral or Criminal? Nova Publishers. 2006

This is a book written by Ralph D. Phee about the treatment of prisoners since the Geneva Convention. He talks about the tortuing and "dark sides" of being in prison and what the after math of 9/11 has caused on prisoners. Phee goes on to talk about the political debates this topic has brought up and the moral, legal and criminal tactics guards use against these prisoners. In his book, popular passages include specifics of reported abuses prisoners have reported and wounds that have been shown to interviewers.