War Weapons Now Available for Jails
A whole new batch of toys for prison guards to play with is now available, courtesy of a new publication by the National Insitute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice. It's called Department of Defense Nonlethal Weapons and Equipment Review: A Research Guide for Civil Law Enforcement and Corrections and is available here.
The report is little more than our Justice Department acting as an ad agency for the corporations that developed such weapons for DOD, enabling them to sell the weapons to police and prison guards.
These weapons are developed to control or disperse large crowds in open settings, and are utterly unsuited for use inside the confines of a closed environment like a prison or jail. What may be appropriate for war become instruments of torture in a prison setting, yet there has never been any discussion or acknowledgment of this by the DOJ, corrections professionals, and certainly not by the manufacturers themselves. Defense lawyers frequently see prison guards and jail deputies misusing tasers, mace, etc., especially in understaffed facilities.
From the report's introduction:
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