I've included below some excerpts from this Army Regulation,
along with the URL to the full, official PDF version.
I've gotten lots of reports from right-wing sources about
detention centers being set up on remote military bases. I
can never tell what to believe and what not to believe from
such sources, so I don't post much of it. Here we have an
official document, from an Army website, describing the
establishment and management of such centers, apparently on
a wide-scale basis.
What is being described here, quite explicitly, are slave
labor camps, to be set up on military bases, providing free
labor to accomplish unspecified "tasks". When we take into
account Abu Ghraib and top-level approval of torture, we
might ask what distinguishes these labor camps from
concentration camps? We might note here that the Nazi
concentration camps were primarily slave labor camps (See:
"The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial
Dynasty that Armed Germany at War", by William Manchester-
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316529400/).
American companies, including those controlled by Prescott
Bush, used this slave labor. That's why we don't hear much
about it in media accounts of the Holocaust.
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1-5. Civilian inmate labor programs
a. Civilian inmate labor programs benefit both the Army and
corrections systems by-
(1) Providing a source of labor at no direct labor 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.
(2) Providing meaningful work for inmates and, in some
cases, additional space to alleviate overcrowding in nearby
corrections facilities.
(3) Making cost-effective use of buildings and land not
otherwise being used.
b. Except for the 3 exceptions listed in paragraph 2-1d
below, installation civilian inmate labor programs may use
civilian inmate labor only from Federal corrections
facilities located either off or on the installation.
http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1123&batch=20&lists=cj