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The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This …
Article • September 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: No § 1983 Private Right Of Action Accrues From Failure To Notify Alien Prisoner’s Consulate by Ninth Circuit: No § 1983 Private Right of Action Accrues from Failure to Notify Foreign National Prisoner’s Consulate by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a …
New Allegations of Widespread Prisoner Abuse in Iraq Emerge As Abu Ghraib Soldiers Sentenced; Abu Ghraib General Writes Book by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke PLN has previously reported the abuse of prisoners in American military prisons in Iraq. [PLN June 2004, p. 1; Nov. 2004, p. 36; Dec. …
Article • July 15, 2011
No Right to Compensation for Work in Prison under the Constitution or International Law by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample Federal prisoners do not have a right to be compensated for their work under the U.S. Constitution or under international law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit …
WA DOC Employee’s Federal Maritime Claims Not Precluded by State Law by The Court of Appeals for the State of Washington, Division II, has reversed and remanded a Department of Corrections (DOC) employee’s federal maritime claim against the DOC. One day while Scott Maziar was riding the ferry home from …
Prisoners’ Human Rights by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD It was a little more than sixty years ago that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). For the first time in history, governments from around the world declared that …
U.K. Terrorism Suspects May Challenge Extradition Based on U.S. Prison Conditions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 8, 2010, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France held that four suspects being detained in the United Kingdom pending extradition to the United States on terrorism charges …
Guantanamo’s Youngest Prisoner Can’t Be Tried, Won’t be Released by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke By July 2002, Omar Khadr, a skinny l5-year-old boy born in Toronto, Canada, had become a radical Muslim militant. He received his first training in an Al-Qaeda camp at the tender age of twelve. To …
China Taking Steps to Reduce Number of Executions by In July, 2009, Zhang Jun, vice president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, said that China was taking steps to reduce the number of executions. Despite the televising of many executions as a form of public intimidation, the absolute number of executions …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Perpetrators and Enablers of Torture in the US by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP During the past 25 years I’ve spent a lot of time with survivors of torture, men and women enduring long term solitary confinement in California’s prisons. They are the most urgent victims of US …
Second Circuit Holds Vienna Convention Does Not Confer Individual Rights On Foreign Nationals by On April 24, 2008, the Second Circuit affirmed a New York district court's decision to dismiss a $1 million complaint filed by a Dominican foreign national, Ricardo A. De Los Santos Mora. The complaint stems from …
Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home by Jordan Flaherty The torture …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
Jose Medellin Executed; Vienna Convention Controversy Lives On by Matthew Clarke Jose Medellin Executed; Vienna Convention Controversy Lives On by Matt Clarke On August 5, 2008 at 9:48 p.m., the State of Texas began the lethal injection that ended the life of Jose E. Medellin. In doing so, it ignored …
U.N. Recommends Worldwide Death Penalty Moratorium by by Matt Clarke On December 12, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a non-binding moratorium on the death penalty. The 192 member nations voted 104 to 54 with 29 abstentions. The measure was spearheaded by the 27-member European Union (EU) which requires …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Prisoners on Prison Education: Your Knowledge, Experience and Views Are Sought by the Special Rapporteur on Education by The Special Rapporteur on education, Vernor Muñoz, is to submit a report on the right to education for people in detention to the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2009. Mr. Muñoz, …
PRISON IS A CENTRAL FEATURE OF PALESTINIAN LIFE by Audrey Bomse, Esq. Since 1967, when the West Bank and Gaza were first occupied by Israel, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained for resisting the Israeli Occupation by political, military and other means. This constitutes approximately 20% of the total Palestinian …
Peruvian National’s Extradition Ordered for Killing Innocent Children, Civilians by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appealed a 2005 U.S. District Court ruling that prevented the extradition of Peruvian national Wilmer Ordinola. The DOJ argued that his heinous crimes against innocent children and civilians did not fall under the political …
Canadian Death Row Prisoners' International Law Claims Rejected by The plaintiff, a Canadian sentenced to death in the United States, alleged that he had been subjected to psychological torture in violation of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment because of his nine execution …
Article • May 15, 2008
No Cause of Action Under International Law for Medical Experiments by Plaintiffs complaining about being subjected to medical experiments in a mental hospital "have not established a cause of action for civil responsibility for crimes against humanity." (42) Although international law "is an inseparable part of American jurisprudence and as …
Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails by David Reutter Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails Review by David M. Reutter "There have been a couple of times that I've tried to end my life in here, but they keep reviving me and bringing me …
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