Facility Holding Terrorism Inmates Limits Communication
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The Justice Department has quietly opened a new prison unit in Indiana that houses a hodgepodge of second-tier terrorism inmates, most of them Arab Muslims, whose ability to communicate with the outside world has been tightly restricted.
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The facility's deputy commander has said many of the alleged al Qaeda and Taliban inmates pose little threat and are not providing much valuable intelligence.
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Officials are planning to propose a plea-bargaining system like that used in the United States which could see alleged terrorists get reduced gaol sentences.
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The military jailers for Jose Padilla, a designated enemy combatant,were forced to speak publicly about the conditions of his secretive detainment.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors.
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Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts
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The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.
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The cadre of civilian lawyers representing terrorism suspects held by the military at Guantanamo Bay are not allowed to meet their clients in private, without video surveillance. All their mail and notes must be turned over to the military. Classified information cannot be shared with their clien...
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Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries.
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The United States has moved 14 key   terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons to military   control, while the Pentagon banned a series of what it called   abusive interrogation tactics for all detainees, officials said   on Wednesday.
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In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
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A defense lawyer on trial accused of  helping a radical Muslim cleric smuggle terrorist messages out  of prison said Wednesday that attorneys have the right to keep  their client conversations secret from jail guards.
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Bugging carried out 'nationwide' The furore over police bugging operations conducted in prison visiting rooms has widened somewhat, with allegations that significant numbers of conversations between prisoners and their legal representatives may have been taped. Angry lawyers are speculating that this could invalidate an unknown number of convictions and see dangerous criminals set free.â¦
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"The US admits it has no reason to hold these men, but the inaction of the international community has left them stranded. "The prolonged detention of these men is unconscionable"  A group of lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees on Friday criticized a US decision to transfer a group of former inmates to Albania. via Raw Story
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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The plan, which would allow suspected terrorists to be detained for 42 days without charge, faces broad opposition.
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Fourteen people were arrested for allegedly seeking to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel.