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Obama administration moves to suspend Gitmo trials
Associated Press - Tue Jan 20, 2009
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Military judges will consider Wednesday whether to halt the Guantanamo war crimes trials after President Barack Obama ordered prosecutors to request a 120-day suspension during a review of the system used to try suspected terrorists. More»

Sheriff jailed for pocketing money meant for inmate meals
CNN - Thu Jan 8, 2009
ALABAMA - A federal judge ordered a north Alabama sheriff jailed this week, saying the lawman intentionally served jail inmates "woefully insufficient" meals in order to pocket more than $200,000. More»

Canadian teenager cries in Guantanamo interrogation video
AFP - Mon Jul 14, 2008
OTTAWA - A sobbing Canadian teenager begged for help as he was questioned in the first video glimpse of interrogations at the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay released Tuesday. More»

US is 'the world's leading jailer'
AFP - Sat Jun 7, 2008
The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world and more than ever before in its history, Human Rights Watch said Friday. More»

DA urges sanctions for prosecutors who withhold evidence
Associated Press - Sun May 4, 2008
DALLAS - A district attorney whose office leads the nation in wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing says prosecutors who intentionally withhold evidence from the defense should face criminal charges or other harsh sanctions. More»

Oklahoma sheriff charged with using inmates as sex slaves
Associated Press - Thu Apr 17, 2008
ARAPAHO, Oklahoma - Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail. More»

Pentagon releases memo on harsh tactics
Associated Press - Mon Mar 31, 2008
The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture. More»

Yemeni describes CIA secret jails
BBC - Thu Mar 13, 2008
A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. More»

13,000 abuse claims in juvenille prisons
Associated Press - Sat Mar 1, 2008
COLUMBIA, Mississippi - The Columbia Training School - pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside - has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi. More»

DOJ appeals $100M wrong conviction order
Associated Press - Sat Feb 16, 2008
BOSTON - The Justice Department appealed a $102 million judgment Friday awarded last year to two men who spent decades in prison and the families of two others who died there for a murder they didn't commit. More»

Clerk's Error Keeps Freed Atlanta Man In Prison For 7 Months
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mon Dec 17, 2007
An Atlanta man sentenced to four months in jail languished in state prison nearly a year because a clerk made an error recording the sentence and no one noticed. More»

Ex-Worker: Air Firm Aided CIA Renditions
Associated Press - Fri Dec 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - A Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to be tortured in overseas prisons openly acknowledged its role in the "extraordinary rendition" program, a former employee of the smaller company said in court papers Friday. More»

Judge Urged Not To Ask About CIA Tapes
Associated Press - Fri Dec 14, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration told a federal judge it was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists and urged the court not to look into the tapes' destruction. More»

Sheriff indicted for forcing inmates to pay room & board
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Wed Nov 14, 2007
A south Georgia sheriff has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly forcing about 475 inmates to pay around $30,000 for room and board to stay in Clinch County Jail. More»

What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons?
Time - Wed Oct 17, 2007
An uneasy sense of deja vu swept over Florida last week after an all-white jury acquitted seven juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a black teen last year. More»

Staff in boot camp case walk free
BBC - Sat Oct 13, 2007
Eight defendants have been acquitted of manslaughter in the case of a teenager who died after being punched and kicked at a Florida boot camp. More»

'Alternative' CIA Tactics Complicate Padilla Case
Christian Science Monitor - Thu Sep 14, 2006
When alleged Al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Padilla landed in Chicago in May 2002, he was met by federal agents armed with a warrant authorizing them to take him into custody. More»

Bush Admits to CIA Secret Prisons
BBC - Tue Sep 5, 2006
President Bush has acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons and said 14 key terrorist suspects have now been sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. More»

Prisoners in New Orleans city jail were 'abandoned'
The Independent UK - Wed Sep 21, 2005
A leading US human rights group accused prison officials in New Orleans yesterday of abandoning hundreds of men in the city jail in the run-up to Hurricane Katrina, leaving them locked up without food, water, electricity, fresh air or functioning toilets for four days as the floodwaters rose to their chests, necks and higher. More»

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