Angela Davis: U.S. is backing torture

Angela Davis: U.S. is backing torture Vietnam era militant gives speech at UW By Samara Kalk Derby

The United States is emerging as the prison guard of the world, Angela Davis told a UW-Madison audience Thursday.

Between the prisoners the U.S. is holding in Iraq and Afghanistan and in secret CIA prisons, the county is promoting strategies of incarceration based on torture, said Davis, the former Black Panther Party member who now is chair of feminist studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz.