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Denial of Medical Care Causes Two Riots at GEO Group Texas Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 12, 2008, a riot erupted at the GEO Group-run Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC) in Pecos, Texas, which houses federal immigration detainees. The uprising was triggered by the death of …
Brief • February 3, 2010
Filed under: Immigration
Flores-Lopez v. Holder, CA, Pet Reply Brief, Crime of Violence Removal Charge, 2010 No. 08-75140 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT FLORES-LOPEZ, Carlos Alberto Agency No. A43-738-693 Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of Decision Of …
Publication • January 25, 2010
Compliance Enforcement Investigations Handbook, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2010 Department of Homeland Security Office of Investigations Compliance Enforcement Investigations Handbook OI HB 10-01 January 25, 2010 OFFICIAL USE ONLY Foreword The Compliance Enforcement Invest igat ions Handbook provides a si ngle source of national …
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) …
Former High-Ranking CIA Official Imprisoned for Corruption by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When the CIA wanted to build secret prisons outside the United States where terrorism suspects could be tortured with impunity, it turned to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, who ran the agency’s main European supply base in Frankfurt, Germany. …
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 …
Education for Persons in Detention—A Human Right by Jimmy Franks The positive correlation between increased education and lowered recidivism rates is a long-established fact. Even so, governments worldwide are not always willing or even able to insure that the men, women and children housed in various detention facilities are given …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
DHS Ordered to Respond to Petition Seeking National Stan-dards at Immigration Detention Facilities by Brandon Sample Immigration rights advocates won a short-lived victory in June 2009, when a U.S. District Court in New York ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to respond to a petition for rulemaking that requested …
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 • January 15, 2010
Second Circuit Remands Iqbal v. Ashcroft for Possible Amendment by On July 28, 2009, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals remanded Iqbal v. Ashcroft to the district court for a determination of whether Iqbal should be granted leave to amend his complaint. Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim Pakistani, and Ehad Elmaghraby, …
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. …
Federal Court Holds Enemy Combatant Detainee May Sue Government Officials by On June 12, 2009, a federal district court in California ruled that a U.S. citizen detained in the U.S. as an enemy combatant could sue a high-ranking federal official who promulgated legal opinions on policies that led to the …
4,000 Kenyan Death Sentences Commuted to Life by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 3, 2009, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced that he had commuted the death sentences of all 4,000 prisoners on Kenya’s death row to life in prison. Explaining his rationale for this action, Kibaki said an …
Abu Ghraib Abuses Not Covered by Insurance Policy by The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a Virginia federal district court’s order that held an insurance policy obtained by a company who was sued for detainee torture in Iraq has no duty to defend the company because the events …
Secret Red Cross Report Reveals Medical Personnel Collusion in CIA Torture by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A leaked confidential report issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in February 2007, concerning the treatment of fourteen “high value detainees” in CIA custody, revealed torture and collusion by …
LULAC Returns CCA Donation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) prepared for a June 20, 2009 protest in Williamson County, Texas outside the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a secure immigration detention center run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), …
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 …
New Mexico County Immigrant Neighborhood Searches Enjoined by A New Mexico federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits the County of Otero from engaging in “unconstitutional stops, searches, seizures, and discrimination pursuant to ‘operation Stonegarden,’” which seeks to round up illegal immigrants. Before the Court was the …
Revised List of ICE Detainee Deaths Still Incomplete, Updated Again by Mark Wilson At least 92 detainees died in immigration detention facilities between October 2003 and February 2009, according to an updated list compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The list, which was obtained by the New York Times …
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 …
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