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Some Policies Don’t Change

Obama has changed the rhetoric of the Bush Administration. Unfortunately, he has not changed the destructive policies that continue… more

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Death by Privatization

For-profit prison healthcare system implicated in death of inmate.

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Confessions of a Terrorist

Dear Senator Patrick Leahy: I write from my sleeper cell outside Hardwick, Vt., through a constituent I persuaded to… more

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The Psychologists of Torture

Medical professionals designed and helped to implement Bush administration interrogation practices.

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Closing America’s Torture Chambers

President Obama was courageous to issue an executive order to close Guantánamo by next January. Having litigated on behalf… more

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Dead Man Waiting

For the second time, a court has stayed the execution of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis

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N.J. Closes Death Row

It's official. Before 2007 came to a close, New Jersey became the first state in the United States in… more

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Catch-22 in the 21st Century

Government censors are making like Joseph Heller's character Yossarian and blacking out random information in letters from Guantánamo that has nothing to do with "national security"

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Third Time’s the Charm?

The military didn't even bother to retain most of the documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted in 2004, so the government has no documents showing any reason for holding these men

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Transgendered Behind Bars

A recent study by the San Francisco-based Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project on rape in California prisons found that 59 percent of transgender people reported being sexually assaulted in prison in 2006, compared to 4 percent of the general prison population

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Prison Breakdown

Overcrowding has pushed California's prison system to the brink

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Suicide and Spin Doctors

There are many ways for the oppressor to force himself into the mind of the oppressed, but one surefire way is through indefinite detention. Never knowing when--or if--you will be released is a cruel form of psychological torture and allows you to keep hope while simultaneously filling you with fear

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Inside the Secret Facility

In an Orwellian twist, the U.S. government monitors all correspondence between a Guantánamo attorney and her client

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The Counterproductive War on Gangs

The conclusion of the report, "Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies," persuasively argues that punitive policies of policing that specifically target gangs increase rather than decrease gang violence

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Gitmo’s Last Honest Man

Abraham found that "evidence" was generally gathered by inexperienced staff with little legal or intelligence training, and he got no assurance that he was given access to all available evidence on a detainee

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Justice Denied

One man stands between Flozelle Woodmore and the "free" world--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Get Me Out of Gitmo

Most detainees at Guantánamo are willing and able to go home, but Bush's spin continues to dizzy our corporate media

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Can Habeas Corpus Be Restored?

Congressional Dems are finding it hard to do

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Torture By Another Name

The origins of "enhanced interrogation techniques" can be traced to the German Gestapo

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Locking Attorneys out of Guantánamo

Government launches war against habeas counsel under claim that lawyers are "acting as a conduit for the media"

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The Guantánamo Hunger Strike

Fasting prisoners force-fed twice a day as 30-inch plastic tubes are forced into their esophaguses

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Inside the Death Chamber

The following transcript was adapted from "Witness to an Execution," a radio documentary produced by Stacy Abramson and David… more

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Rethinking Lineups

In the mid-'90s, inspired by a spate of DNA exonerations, academics began to study whether eyewitness identifications using traditional… more

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Reading Harry Potter in Guantánamo

The prisoners at Guantánamo Bay--or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it--have had no… more

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Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire

Who's to blame for America's new torture techniques?

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Inside America’s Gulag

A Guantánamo lawyer reports from a parallel legal universe

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8 Reasons to Close Guantnamo Now

The first detainees arrived in Guantánamo four months to the day after the 9/11 attacks. From the opening of… more

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Families Behind Bars

U.S. immigration policy is putting kids in jail

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Americas Slave Labor

Inmates are being forced to work in toxic 'e-waste' sweatshops

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Diary of a Guantánamo Attorney

I fell into the world of Guantánamo in October 2005. The Chicago Council of Lawyers had organized a luncheon… more

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Lawyers Fight for Habeas Rights

The Military Commissions Act suspends Habeas corpus for foreign citizens accused of hostilities against the U.S.

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Abandon Hope, All Who Enter Here

A falsely accused "enemy combatant" describes his imprisonment in Guantanamo.

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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.

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End Medical Experimentation on Prisoners Now

Prisoners have no rights regarding the quality of their medical care or their participation in experiments.

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Follow the Prison Money Trail

Private prison companies invest millions in elections.

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Rechecking the Balance of Powers

The Bush administration has finally been rebuked for its repeated efforts to evade judicial review

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The Senselessness of Guantnamo

Chicago Lawyer Joseph Marguiles' Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon & Schuster) is about as convincing an… more

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Postmark Guantánamo

Why is the Pentagon keeping prisoners' mail from their lawyers?

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