If mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denver.

The newly created lockup is on the northeast side of Denver. Protesters have already given this place a name: “Gitmo on the Platte.”

Inside are dozens are metal cages. They are made out of chain link fence material and topped by rolls of barbed wire.

“This is a secured environment,” Capt. Frank Gale of the Denver Sheriff’s Department told CBS4. “We’re concerned about how that’s going to be utilized by people who will be potentially disruptive.”

Potentially disruptive.  If the police believe you might be disruptive, in the cage you go.

Each of the fenced areas is about 5 yards by 5 yards and there is a lock on the door. A sign on the wall reads “Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility.”

Ah, we know where this is going already.  Potentially disruptive people will be tasered for any little thing they say or do.  They might even use pain guns, goo guns, and powdered pepper spray.

The plans were to keep this lockup a secret, at least for now.

Oh, so you wanted to keep it a secret that you intended to arrest lots of people that probably haven’t done anything wrong because they might disrupt your setup for the perfect convention?

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the City of Denver how prisoners will get access to food and water, bathrooms, telephones, plus medical care, and if there will be a place to meet with attorneys.

Well, this is why they wanted to keep it secret.  Now, they will have to give their prisoners access to all this stuff.

More disturbing is that the Denver police are already monitoring the protesters’ websites.  The police appear to be looking for any excuse to show who’s in charge and who they can provoke to make their original claim, that the cages are necessary, valid.

If you commit a violent crime, then, yes, you should go to prison.  However, the problem with these cages is that the Denver police wanted to keep it a secret.  The signs declaring the use of tasers is equally disturbing.  Added to this is the fact that the government and police departments have used agent provocateurs before, which helped create riots, which, in turn, got a whole lot of people arrested that shouldn’t have been arrested.  These cages’ sole purpose is for large, sweeping arrests, innocent and guilty.  It happened in 2004 at the Republican Convention.  It’s not really a stretch to see that it’s going to happen again.