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Business is Booming for Prison Profiteers by James Kilgore Private corrections company The GEO Group celebrated the holiday season by opening a new 1,500-bed prison in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 12, 2011. The $80 million facility is expected to generate approximately $28 million in annual revenues. Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Prisons Are Breeding Ground for Terrorists? by Mark Wilson “Prisons are often described as ‘hotbeds’ of terrorism,” but they can also become important “net contributors in the struggle against terrorism” according to a July 2010 joint study by the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence …
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 …
Iraqi Refugee Awarded $88 Million for Torture by Iraqi Refugee Awarded $88 Million for Torture by Hussein Regime An Iraqi refugee who was detained and tortured by Saddam Hussein’s regime was awarded $88 million in 2004. In 1991, 20-year-old Abdullah K. Alkhuzai was arrested by the Iraqi government following 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. …
Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding” by by Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health …
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 …
Study: CIA Doctors ‘Gave Green Light to Torture’ by Muriel Kane A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized. As …
Dozens of CIA “Ghost” Detainees Unaccounted For by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A U.S. Dept. of Justice memo, released in April 2009, indicated the CIA had 94 people in secret prisons scattered around the world as of mid-2005, and the agency had “employed enhanced techniques to varying degrees in …
Iraq: Unrest at Abu Ghraib as Camp Bucca Closes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2009 the U.S. military closed Camp Bucca in Iraq, once its largest detention facility, and the prison at Abu Ghraib experienced a two-day uprising. Camp Bucca cost the U.S. $50 million to build …
Military Contractors Granted Summary Judgment by On September 11, 2009, Iraqi citizens, Haidar Muhsin Saleh and Ilam Nassir Ibrahim, lost their appeal to the District of Columbia Circuit in regard to lawsuits filed against two private military contractors. The two men represented a group of plaintiffs who alleged they or …
Conviction of CIA Contractor Who Fatally Beat Afghan Detainee Upheld on Appeal by On August 10, 2009, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of a CIA contractor who beat to death a detainee at a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan. The contractor’s sentence was reversed due to …
Mattan v. Obama,. DC, Plf Mot for Recusal, Guantanamo Bay prisoner habeus, 2010 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MOHAMMED ABDULLAH TAHA MATTAN (ABDAL RAZAK ALI) Petitioners, No: 09- 745 (RCL) vs. BARACK OBAMA, et al, Respondents. PETITIONER ABDAL RAZAK ALI’S MOTION FOR RECUSAL PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. 455(a) …
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 …
D.C. Circuit Reaffirms That Guantanamo Detainees Have No Constitutional Rights by On remand from the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has again denied relief to four British nationals who alleged that their detention at Guantanamo Bay violated the Geneva Convention, the U.S. …
Padilla v. Yoo: Obama administration backs appeal of Bush torture memo author by John Burton By John Burton 12 December 2009 Obama administration lawyers under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder are once again supporting the dismissal of a civil case brought by a victim of illegal detention and …
Obama Promises Guantanamo Will Close and Torture Will End ... but When? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke During last year’s election campaign, President Obama came out forcefully against torture by U.S. officials and in favor of closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which holds approximately 230 alleged …
Columbia Jail Journal: The Compelling, Exclusive Inside Story of the Columbia Three, by James Monaghan, Brandon Press, 277 pages by David Preston Reviewed by David Preston Of the many and varied detours a man can take off the road to happiness, a trip to prison would have to be about …
Reopened Abu Ghraib Prison Haunted by its Past by by Matt Clarke On February 21, 2009, Iraqi officials reopened the most infamous icon of human rights abuses under two different governments – the Abu Ghraib prison. Located near western Baghdad on 113 hectares of land, the immense prison complex now …
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