{"id":1344,"date":"2011-11-20T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/20\/torture-allegations-in-north-carolina-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:00","slug":"torture-allegations-in-north-carolina-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/torture-allegations-in-north-carolina-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture allegations in North Carolina prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/699322013\/torture-allegations-in-north-carolina-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/699322013\/torture-allegations-in-north-carolina-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/QC-9_9mo6u0WZTrwpXQt6Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> The warden of North Carolina&rsquo;s Central Prison, Warden Gerald J. Branker has retired amid allegations of torture of inmates.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/city-buzz-in-charlotte\/torture-allegations-north-carolina-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via examiner.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties The warden of North Carolina&rsquo;s Central Prison, Warden Gerald J. Branker has retired amid allegations of torture of inmates.Via examiner.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1354,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/testimony-of-torture-chinese-dissident-exposes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1344,"position":0},"title":"Testimony of Torture: Chinese Dissident Exposes Prison Brutality &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News &#8211; International","author":"aslam","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Chinese poet Liao Yiwu recently moved to Germany, where his books are best-sellers. 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