US: Not all prisoners the same
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Washington - A new legal opinion by the United States government bars some non-Iraqi prisoners captured in Iraq from the internationally accepted protections of the Geneva Conventions, The New York Times said on Tuesday.
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Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said Monday.
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The United States, which has the most prisoners of any country in the world, last year recorded the largest increase in the number of people in prisons and jails since 2000, the Justice Department reported on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt...
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A report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Nearly two dozen detainees at the interrogation prison here tried to hang or strangle themselves during an eight-day period in 2003, including 10 attempts on a single day, the US military has disclosed.
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WASHINGTON -- Most of the alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are likely to be freed or sent to their home countries for further investigation because many pose little threat and are not providing much valuable intelligence, the facility's deputy commander has said.
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An American detaineeâs story illuminates the haphazard system of detention and prosecution that has evolved in Iraq.
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A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the
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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
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The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails or on probation or parole reached a record 7 million at the end of last year, accounting for about 3 percent of the nation's adult population, the Justice Department reported on Thursday.
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The US is listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a Canadian foreign ministry training manual.
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Twenty-three prisoners at the Guantanamo detention camp staged a mass protest in 2003 in which some tried to strangle themselves, but the U.S. military said on Tuesday it did not publicize it at the time because it did not consider most of them genuine suicide attempts.
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It could have been just idle chitchat among bored prison inmates. The problem was, they weren't your average inmates, and the subject of their threatening chatter was the chief justice of the United States.
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Prisoners who endure poor or degrading treatment suffer much of the same long-term psychological distress as do captives who are tortured, suggests a study published Monday.
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Prisoners at a US jail in Afghanistan communicate via video link with their families for the first time.
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There are not too many ex-prisoners whose arrival in a room brings 250 journalists to their feet in a standing ovation. And there are not too many 86-year-olds who can summon a supergroup of some of the world&#39;s