The most recent reports state that 108 detainees have died in US custody, out of 65000, since the wars in Iraq/Afganistan began. While human rights groups deplore this (some even state it's a 'massacre') I wonder. We don't know how many died from 'natural causes' ie a heart attack. We don't know how many were killed in prison uprisings, which seem to be somewhat common. Or were killed while the prisoner was trying to escape. Granted, this isn't a good thing, but I think prison is a pretty bad place, i wonder what the stats for the Dept of Corrections are. I wouldn't be surprised if the mortality rate was over 1/1000 per year; this would be comparable to the above figures taken over several years.

Anyway, yes it's not a good thing, but it's not like we are 'killing' half, or even 1% of the detainees. And we don't know how many of those deaths can be attributed to torture or negligance.

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