And in 1998, The Hartford Courant documented 142 deaths, over a 10-year period, resulting from the use of such restraints in psychiatric facilities. Bright goes on to say other prisoners got lost in the bureau's red tape. The situation has grown worse since Congress cut off funds to finance suits by prisoners. Hence, with the exception of a handful of tiny nonprofit legal outfits, there is nothing to stop the Bureau of Prisons from transforming federal prisons into torture chambers. Indian youths get murdered at twice the rate of white teenagers.
Indian kids kill themselves at more than twice the rate of non-Indian youths.
Indian teenagers are 10 times more apt to die from drinking than kids of other races. Indians under 18 get arrested for alcohol-related crimes at a rate more than twice the national average. To advertise in Nation contact Glenn Severance .