Training for Abu Ghraib

From today's Tribune:

Issuing a damning assessment of one of Cook County's most powerful politicians, a special grand jury that investigated the mass beating of jail inmates by guards concluded Sheriff Michael Sheahan "engaged in a not-too-skillful exercise of deliberate ignorance even as his people failed miserably in their responsibilities."

Addressing a brutal episode in 1999 in which an elite squad of guards with unmuzzled dogs systematically punched and stomped dozens of inmates, the grand jury concluded that high-ranking sheriff's officials--though not Sheahan himself--covered up the beating and subsequent investigation.

"He made sure he knew little-to-nothing so that he would be unable to deal with specific issues that arose," the grand jury said in a 150-page report released Thursday

So, is anyone willing to take odds on whether or not some of the similar techniques were exported from the American gulag, at places like Cook County Correctional to Abu Ghraib?