ASHINGTON, March 19 - A Justice
Department review that was prompted by the abuse of dozens of
detainees at the federal jail in Brooklyn after the terrorist
attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, urges the creation of a special cadre of
guards for high-security inmates and a tighter policy on conducting
strip searches and videotaping inmates' activities.
An earlier Justice Department investigation found that guards at
the Metropolitan Detention Center had slammed detainees against
walls, twisted their arms, conducted unneeded strip searches and
videotaped conversations between some detainees and their lawyers.
In addition, hundreds of such videotapes were destroyed or
erased.
The review, released on Friday by Glenn A. Fine, the Justice
Department's inspector general, also said that the Bureau of Prisons
had taken "reasonable and responsible steps" to address concerns
raised earlier.
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