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The U.S. Army is authorized to create civilian prison labor camps on military installations, according to a little-noticed regulation.

The camps are allowed if the request comes from the Federal Bureau of Prisons or state corrections facilities under leasing requirements defined by federal law.

WND's discovery of the regulation comes shortly after Bush administration directives expanding presidential powers during an emergency.

The Army prison camp policy is defined in Army Regulation 210-35, entitled "Installations: Civilian Inmate Labor Camps," signed Feb. 14, 2005, by Sandra R. Riley, then-administrative assistant to the secretary of the Army.

The regulation revises an earlier civilian inmate labor camp regulation signed Dec. 9, 1997, under the Clinton administration.

Ned Christensen, spokesman for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, confirmed to WND the 2005 version of Army Regulation 210-35 is currently valid and fully operative.

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The regulation specifies "the Army's primary purpose for allowing establishment of prison camps on Army installations is to use the resident nonviolent civilian inmate labor pool to work on the leased portions of the installation."

The regulations specify Army personnel running the prison camps will prepare an "Inmate Labor Plan" that will comply with 18 U.S.C. 4125(a), governing civilian inmate labor.

That section of the U.S. Code allows the U.S. attorney general to make available to the heads of U.S. departments, including the Army, the services of U.S. prisoners to engage in labor, including "constructing or repairing roads, cleaning, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress."

The regulation currently limits the Army's Civilian Inmate Labor Program "to using inmates from facilities under the control of the Federal Bureau of Prisons," noting the bureau "provides civilian inmate labor free of charge to the Army."

The regulation specifies that a benefit of the program to the Army is "providing a source of labor at no direct cost to Army installations to accomplish tasks that would not be possible otherwise due to the manning and funding constraints under which the Army operates."

Extraordinary powers

WND previously reported that in May President Bush signed National Security Presidential Directive-51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-20, which granted near-dictatorial powers to the president in the event he declares a national emergency.

The directives loosely define "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy or government functions.

When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, he can take over governmental functions at all federal, state, local, territorial and tribal levels, as well as direct private sector activities, to ensure the U.S. emerges from the emergency "with an enduring constitutional government."

That means, essentially, when the president determines a national emergency has occurred, he can confer to the office of the presidency powers usually assumed by dictators to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency is over.

Christensen could not answer WND questions regarding whether the president could declare a national emergency under NSPD-51/HSPD-20 and instruct the Bureau of Prisons to have the Army construct civilian prison camps.

"The last time civilians were incarcerated on U.S. Army installations was when the Japanese were interred during World War II," Christensen told WND.

Still, Christensen acknowledged that Fort Dix has two civilian labor prisons on its property, one federal and one state.

"Fort Dix routinely uses inmate labor for grounds maintenance and some other manual labor, such as filling sandbags," Christensen told WND in an e-mail. "So, the Fort Dix program is used to provide activity for trusted inmates and labor to the government at no cost."

WND also reported KBR, formerly the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., has a contingency contract in place with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, spokeswoman Julie Zuieback confirmed to WND on May 29 that the Department of Homeland Security in January awarded KBR a $385 million contract to construct detention facilities on a contingency basis.

Christensen said it was outside his area to comment on whether the DHS could ask KBR to build a civilian prison labor camp on an Army installation.

WND called the White House and the Department of Homeland Security and left detailed messages about the substance of this story but received no response.

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=SignInArchive&guid=%7B62C8 724D%2DAE8A%2D4B5C%2D94C7%2D70171315C0A0%7D%B6

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

http://law.onecle.com/uscode/18/4125.html

http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf

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I've seen alot of concern about our overflowing prison populations. I'd thought about the problem and wasn't really sure about the end result... This article makes sense.
Forced labor in the event of a national emergency.
No wonder we are being incarcerated in record numbers.
No wonder there is this idiotic push to extend jail times for what used to be minor infractions.

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OK,
there is historic precedent for people being "conscripted" during emergencies and outside of wartime...

just not by presidents


in 1927, the levee broke just north of Greenville MS...

April 22 1927: The Great Flood overruns Greenville, Mississippi. Downtown Greenville is covered in 10 feet of water. For 60 miles to the east and 90 miles to the south of the Mounds Landing break, the Delta becomes a turbulent, churning inland sea, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded on rooftops and clinging to trees.



what happened after that is astounding...
there are half-dozen well-documented reports on the subject this one is concise:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/timeline/timeline2.html


have any of these KBR camps actually been built?
and?
is KBR collecting on the contract whether they build them or not?

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Lockdown in Sydney...

if you think this can't happen here, remember the '04 GOP convention..

Sydney prepares for APEC forum
By Tim Johnston
Published: September 2, 2007
SYDNEY: Some of this city's most popular tourist destinations went into lockdown mode Sunday as Australia prepared for the arrival of 21 world leaders for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Contractors erected five kilometers, or three miles, of steel fencing and concrete barriers to isolate the iconic opera house where many of the meetings will be held. Water police officers on Jet Skis patrolled the harbor while armed helicopters crisscrossed Sydney's skies.

The police have been given increased powers across much of the city's business district that allow them to stop passersby and demand identification. Local prisoners have been given special furloughs to empty the jails, allowing for large numbers of detainees if expected protests turn violent.

For the first time in Australia's history, the police have been equipped with water cannon to control protesters.


http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/02/america/apec.php

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quote:
have any of these KBR camps actually been built?
and?
is KBR collecting on the contract whether they build them or not?

I don't see where anything has been built yet but the contract suggests it is a five year plan, might still be in the engineering phases.
I am aware of prisoners being used during local emergencies from time to time but not on a national level nor as policy.
Just a bit odd that the last two decades have seen this idiotic tough on crime bs, which has led to insanely stiff sentences for seemingly minor infractions, now we are seeing the federal government wishing to use these newly found prisoners as slave labor.
Almost planned...

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quote:
Originally posted by glassman:
Lockdown in Sydney...

if you think this can't happen here, remember the '04 GOP convention..

Sydney prepares for APEC forum
By Tim Johnston
Published: September 2, 2007
SYDNEY: Some of this city's most popular tourist destinations went into lockdown mode Sunday as Australia prepared for the arrival of 21 world leaders for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Contractors erected five kilometers, or three miles, of steel fencing and concrete barriers to isolate the iconic opera house where many of the meetings will be held. Water police officers on Jet Skis patrolled the harbor while armed helicopters crisscrossed Sydney's skies.

The police have been given increased powers across much of the city's business district that allow them to stop passersby and demand identification. Local prisoners have been given special furloughs to empty the jails, allowing for large numbers of detainees if expected protests turn violent.

For the first time in Australia's history, the police have been equipped with water cannon to control protesters.


http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/02/america/apec.php

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ampa2007252/
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