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Reports of Abuse at U.S.-Run Secret Prison in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
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U.S. media reports detail alleged abuses that took place at a secretive U.S. jail in Afghanistan, seemingly undermining U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to improve conditions at such facilities. A report in The Washington Post published Saturday...
Tags: U.S.-Run Secret Prison, Afghanistan, Kabul, War in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, Bagram Air Base, Human rights in Afghanistan, Black site, Counter-terrorism, Prisons, Al-Qaeda, Political positions of Barack Obama, Politics, Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni, Year of birth missing, War Conflict, Prisoner of war camps, Hamidullah, Osama bin Laden, Islamic terrorism, International reaction to the United States presidential election, Bagram Theater Internment Facility
Florence, Colo.: Where terrorists are neighbors
Florence :: Italy | 4 days ago
Credibility Like the towering Rocky Mountains and endless acres of dry grass dotted with cactuses, a federal prison holding dozens of convicted terrorists, many with al-Qaida ties, is just part of the landscape here. Golfers tee off on the local course and kids hop...
Tags: Florence City, federal prisoners, Colorado State Penitentiary, Thomson, Fremont County, Darrell Lindsey, Clerk Dori Williams, prisoners officials, Italy, Florence, ADX Florence, Prisons, United States Penitentiary Florence, Supermax, Fremont County Colorado
Keeping convicted terrorists quiet is biggest concern, officials say
Terre Haute :: IN :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility For federal authorities, the most immediate concern about international terrorists in U.S. prisons is not an escape but collaboration with radicals and the funneling of propaganda to recruits abroad. In 2006, U.S. officials were dismayed to learn that...
Tags: Justice Department, Thomson, Bernard Kleinman, Florence, Guantanamo Bay, U.S, convicted terrorists, Colorado, Terre Haute, Human rights abuses, Prisons, Supermax, Incarceration in the United States, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Prison assaults rise at Shirley, drop at Walpole
Walpole :: MA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility M assachusetts officials say assaults at the Walpole prison have dropped just as they’ve spiked at the maximum-security facility in Shirley, which now houses some of Walpole’s former inmates. A prison system spokeswoman says they think it shows the violence...
Tags: Walpole, Shirley, Prisons, Supermax, Social Issues
Self-help books, shouted chess moves: Tamms tour gives glimpse of life behind bars for mentally ill
Belleville :: IL :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Reporters could see but couldn't talk to Tamms Correctional Center inmate Faygie Fields as he bounced on his toes, smiled and waved wildly from behind a perforated steel door Thursday. Illinois Department of Corrections Director Michael Randle opened...
Tags: Belleville, Tamms Correctional Center, Penology, Prisons, Supermax, Law Crime
Secret CIA prison revealed in Lithuania
Vilnius :: Lithuania | 10 days ago
Credibility An American television channel, ABC, reported on Thursday that a previously unidentified CIA prison was situated at a riding academy and cafe not far from the capital, Vilnius, where up to eight al Qaeda suspects were held for over a year until late 2005....
Tags: Lithuanian Parliament, CIA, cia prisoners, secret cia, qaeda terrorists, Lithuania, Vilnius, National security, Dalia Grybauskaitￄﾗ, Al-Qaeda, Presidents of Lithuania, Counter-terrorism, Human rights abuses, Extraordinary rendition by the United States, International law, Kidnappings, Black site, Central Intelligence Agency, Prisons, Torture in the United States, Politics, Andrius Kubilius, Kubilius, Law Crime
Carlson: Folks in Clinton see jobs, not fear
Cuba :: IL :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Mention the massive prison across the Mississippi River and you see a lot of smiles in this city. People here know all about the federal government's tentative plans to transfer alleged terrorists from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a...
Tags: Cuba, American Federation of Government Employees, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Corrections officer, Prison, Penology, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Internments, Politics, Incarceration in the United States, Thomson Correctional Center, Prisons, Supermax
Lithuania investigates possible CIA 'black site'
Vilnius :: Lithuania | 11 days ago
Credibility Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and built a large, two-story building without windows, ringed by a metal fence and security cameras....
Tags: CIA, Lithuanian, black site, ABC News, secret prison, Lithuania, Vilnius, National security, Prisons, Counterterrorist Intelligence Center, Central Intelligence Agency, Counter-terrorism, Human rights abuses
The human rights of terrorists | Afua Hirsch
London :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility The human rights of terrorists That the alleged 9/11 conspirators, if convicted, will face the death penalty requires some mental acrobatics from a human rights perspective Khalid Sheikh Mohammed shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. Photograph:...
Tags: American, death penalty, beings extradition, Adel Abdul Bary, United Kingdom, London, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Extradition, Death row phenomenon, Incarceration in the United States, September 11 attacks, Islamic terrorism, Prisons, Supermax, Social Issues, Law Crime
Critics: Durbin's Tamms tour was a superficial review
Belleville :: IL :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Sen. Dick Durbin left the supermax Tamms Correctional Center last week with praise for a mental health unit housing 12 inmates, he had failed to inspect the elevated security area where inmates regularly mutilate themselves and attempt suicide, critics...
Tags: Dick Durbin, mental health, solitary confinement, mental illness, Belleville, Tamms Correctional Center, Penal system of Japan, Dick Durbin, Mental disorder, Human rights, Prisons, Supermax, Social Issues
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