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This article glosses over some very glaring actions by Graner that occurred well before Abu Ghraib--as a corrections officer in Allgheny County he was suspended for forcing prison inmates to participate in a game of "simon says" where cattle prods were used on the inmates that failed the game. Also, his German wife when he lived in Greene County and worked at SCI-Greene was abused by isolation and forbidden from learning english or meeting with German-speaking individuals even for basic companionship. There is no mention of her fleeing to a woman's shelter with her children to escape her abuse.
he should be where he is. He is not the only one who should be there but he is where he should be.
