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The American journalist Amy Goodman
once wrote that it is the responsibility of reporters "to go to where the
silence is and say something." In Japan, there's still far too little being
said about conditions inside immigration detention centers, where inmates
remain at real and continuing risk of abuse and discrimination. A 1997
report by Amnesty International on "The Ill-Treatment of Foreigners in
Detention" describes a systematic pattern of human rights violations against
foreign nationals in Japanese prisons and detention centers, ranging from
racist language, through inadequate medical treatment and access to legal
assistance, to alleged beatings and physical abuse leading to death. 
HOW ABOUT AMERICAN
PRISONS?
(LEAVING THE JAPAN
SECTION)
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