Archive - The Wells Record - Torture Networks, Policing and Prisons

The ‘Rape Club’ Closed. The System Didn’t.

A new GAO report found federal PREA prison rape audits were not designed to detect abuse, suggesting the scandal at FCI Dublin was no outlier.

May 19 • Stephanie Athey

April 2026

Torture isn't Hidden. It's Organized.

Survivors fight back: A landmark conviction, new UN Survivor's Charter, plus dystopian UK prisons, a US perpetrator rebrands—what six stories reveal…

Apr 23 • Stephanie Athey

The Wells Record - Torture Networks, Policing, Prisons

State torture thrives because it has carved out local social functions and (putative) benefits. Global news on the blurred faces and human…

Apr 1 • Stephanie Athey

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