Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida won widespread praise earlier this year when he announced that new rules that he had put in place had restored voting rights to more than 100,000 former inmates. But the numbers now turn out to have been an illusion.
Read more »
hat tip ~ LegitGov
Sunday, 27 July 2008 00:00 www.daily.pk
Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed.
Jordanian daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US secret prisons in Europe.
Riyadh is to spent about two billion Saudi Rials for the project which can accommodate up to 18000 inmates, they added.
Bin laden firm and with the help of German engineers will build the prisons in the Saudi cities of Mecca, Haer, Demmam, and Qasim.
The US has been under pressure due to violating individual rights in its detention camps in Europe and Guantanamo Bay.
UN human rights investigators have urged the White House to shut down the Guantanamo camp.
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press WriterSat May 24, 12:13 PM ET
If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.
Read more »
http://www.nytimes.com/…
ERIC SCHMITT
TIM GOLDEN<
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.
Read more »
http://rawstory.com/…
John Byrne
Published: Thursday April 24, 2008
Documents show they expected legal challenges from the start
The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Read more »
foreverdyingbrightly