Every degradation of the human spirit that can be imagined is down to this administration — and its enablers in Congress, on both sides of the aisle.

True, but how do they come up with such a compliant work force? We have ample reason to believe that it’s not from clever (or even competent) management. Are we as a nation this ignorant, fearful, mean, and crazy?

Could this be the payoff from decades of television, miseducation, fundamentalism, adolescent-centered culture, pharmaceutical mood management, declining earnings, and narrowing autonomy?

Immigrant detainees die either from the abysmal medical care which defines more what can’t be done for these prisoners than what can; or, they die because dangerous psychotropic drugs are used on them indiscriminately and carelessly.

Yesterday’s installment was about how errors in psychiatric diagnoses led to mentally ill prisoners going undetected and unmonitored. Many of them committed suicide while incarcerated.

It’s been a gripping series. Dana Priest is one of the reporters and it’s every bit as good as the series she did with Anne Hull on Walter Reed. I encourage everyone to read it.