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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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The Middle Eastern man's name is a tightly held secret. No one in his family except his wife knows he works at this US military base, where nearly 400 men captured in Washington's war on terror are held.
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Non-Iraqi prisoners caught by US forces in Iraq may no longer be treated under the protections of the Geneva convention, according to a report in today&#39;s New York Times.
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WASHINGTON -- A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was much broader than the Bush administration has portrayed it since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal became public this spring.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military is taking as few prisoners as possible in its campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, partly to forestall more complaints about its conduct after at least eight prisoners died in custody, an American commander said yesterday.
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Questions are raised about the mental state of the prison's senior officer just before the abuses there
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Women inmates in New Jersey's prisons are twice as likely to be raped and nearly six times more likely to be otherwise sexually abused by other inmates than their male counterparts, according to a new federal study.
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A prisoner doesn't have to undergo excruciating pain to be considered a victim of torture, the Justice Department now says. But it's not clear whether this revised, broader definition of torture will change the treatment of foreign detainees.
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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, Lt...
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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Fewer prison inmates were moved to death row in 2005, according to a federal study that shows one more person was executed than in the year before.
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LONDON, Sept. 6 -- President Bush's decision to transfer 14 suspected terrorists to a U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from secret CIA detention centers was greeted Wednesday with skepticism among human rights advocates and some lawmakers in Europe.
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Most U.S. visitors are not fully screened for terrorist or criminal ties, according to a Justice Department watchdog. The reason: Bush administration agency infighting over such things as how many fingers to print.
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New generation of violent inmates blamed for growth of gang culture in prisons
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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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Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts
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The US says Guantanamo inmates will be tried fairly over 9/11 but some groups criticise the use of military tribunals.