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U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

MSNBC -- Are the terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Naval Base more akin to people accused in a criminal case or to German prisoners of war in 1944? An accused criminal can go to federal court to challenge his imprisonment; a German POW couldn’t. On.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

BBC News -- The acquittal of a US army colonel on charges relating to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib means no officers have been found criminally guilty. The episode stained the reputation of the US military and may well have acted as a recruiting agent for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 1:36am neoform

United Press International -- The United States currently is holding about 19,000 terror suspects, a human rights group said Monday. "It is estimated that there are currently about 18,000 detainees held in Iraq, over 660 in Afghanistan, and about 375 at the U.S. prison in Guantanam.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 10:15pm neoform

Washington Post -- More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 11:24am neoform

Washington Post -- More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 9:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- Nearly 60% of voters in the recent U.S. national elections believe the prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay should either be granted a hearing before an independent judge or be released to their home countries, and fewer than 20% of those polled believe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Videos Bringing Abu Ghraib back into focus June 17: “Standard Operating Procedure” co-author Philip Gourevitch discusses the continuing fallout from the photos taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.Nightly NewsPhysicians.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:31pm neoform

FOX News -- New regulations will allow gay and lesbian prisoners in California to have overnight conjugal visits with their partners, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began to permit inmates to spend.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 12:13am neoform

USA Today -- By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAYWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners held for more than five years, in the latest action in a long-running dispute over the Bush administration's handling of terrorism suspect.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 8, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice. Somebody has to pick the crops. Prutch has 15 acres of rotting peppers to show what happens if s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

Alter Net -- The latest numbers are out: nearly 800,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2005. When will the insanity stop? American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That's according.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 3:25pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- At the Southeast State Correctional Facility, inmates are subjected to head counts several times a day. Not Ziggy, Marmalade, Smokey and Shane, though — they come and go as they please. They're prison cats — but only for now. They are being involunta.. Read More