Anne-Marie Cusac
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Anne-Marie Cusac is the author of Cruel and Unusual: Punishment in America (Yale University Press, 2009).

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Cusac is George Polk Award-winning journalist. For ten years, she was an editor and investigative reporter for The Progressive magazine. Cusac won the George Polk Award for her article “Stunning Technology,” an investigation of the use of the stun belt in U.S. prisons. She has won the Project Censored Award three times. She has also been recognized with a second-place John Bartlow Martin Award, and a 2002 Milwaukee Press Club Award for magazine reporting.

Information from Cusac’s investigations of the stun belt and the restraint chair helped to prompt the United Nations Committee Against Torture to call for a ban on the devices.

Blog Entries by Anne-Marie Cusac

Torture Is American

Posted October 6, 2010 | 16:45:24 (EST)

What does it mean that one of the first female soldiers to die in Iraq was Allyssa Peterson? Peterson killed herself after rejecting her assignment -- interrogating Iraqi inmates in a military prison. For a full recounting of this story, see the recently posted Nation article by Greg...

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The Detention Election Game

Posted May 26, 2009 | 13:00:14 (EST)

Barack Obama is running for President.
What? Didn't he just win?
Admittedly, he did. But he launched his 2012 Presidential campaign with these words from his deceptively beautiful May 21 speech, which first lauded the Constitution, then proposed:

We're going to exhaust every avenue that we...
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Torture, American-Style

Posted April 28, 2009 | 18:53:00 (EST)

What does torture have to do with America? The answer is, unfortunately, a rich one.

In 2004, when Seymour Hersh and Sixty Minutes II broke the news of Abu Ghraib, I had spent eight years reporting on American prisons and jails.

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