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CIA Built Secret Torture Prison At Fancy Horseback Riding Academy

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy... more

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Former UTC wrestler surrenders in connection with murder of 4

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The US Has 5% Of The World's Population And 25% Of The World's Prisoners!

Senator Al Franken, discussing the issue of rape-kit backlogs, drug courts, and more... more

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Hightower: Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell | | AlterNet

I say send them all to the pits of the darkest prison!

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US Unveils Extended Bagram Prison

Bagram prison in Afghanistan has become almost as notorious as Guantanamo. But whilst... more

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Illinois Prison May Be Path to Closing Guantánamo

WASHINGTON — Top Illinois Democrats on Sunday wholeheartedly embraced the idea of sending terrorism suspects from Guantánamo Bay to a maximum-security prison about 150 miles west of Chicago, raising the possibility of a major breakthrough in the Obama administration’s efforts to close the military detention facility in Cuba.
But while Gov. Patrick J. Quinn and Senator Richard J. Durbin endorsed housing the detainees at the Thomson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in a rural area, other local leaders were drumming up opposition to the idea, which could still face considerable opposition in Congress.

For the White House, which confirmed the administration’s interest, it could be the best chance so far to cut through the legal and political knots that have stopped it from closing down the prison camp in Cuba. For supporters in Illinois, it is an attractive economic opportunity. And just as opponents have done elsewhere, some in Illinois cast this plan as an unacceptable risk.

Mr. Quinn and Mr. Durbin, in news conferences to promote the plan, said that turning over the state prison, which is unoccupied, to the federal penal system, and using it for maximum-security inmates including as many as 100 captives from the campaign against terrorism, would create several thousand jobs.

But leading Republicans in the state — including Representatives Donald Manzullo, whose district includes Thomson, and Mark Steven Kirk, who is running for the United States Senate seat once held by Mr. Obama — signed a letter to the president on Sunday strongly opposing any such move.

“As home to America’s tallest building, we should not invite Al Qaeda to make Illinois its No. 1 target,” the letter said, referring to the Willis Tower in Chicago, formerly the Sears Tower. “The United States spent more than $50 million to build the Guantánamo Bay detention facility to keep terrorists away from U.S. soil. Al Qaeda terrorists should stay where they cannot endanger American citizens.”

The sharp local debate echoed vehement arguments heard all weekend, after the administration announced that it would try the man accused as the operational leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and several co-conspirators, in a federal court in New York, while putting others accused of terrorism before military commissions for an attack on the U.S.S. Cole. That, too, was presented as a step along the path to closing Guantánamo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/us/16gitmo.html?hpWASHINGTON — Top Illinois Democrats on Sunday wholeheartedly embraced the idea of... more

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Life In Prison For 51 Cannabis Plants?

At a time of heightened national security post-911, a near-depression economy and... more

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Father sentenced 12 years for starving twins

A Lovejoy father will serve 12 years in prison for nearly starving his twin sons to... more

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The Hipster Grifter on Life Behind Bars

Her sensational Internet fame over, Kari Ferrell—now in a Utah jail for fraud and... more

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Roundups

San Nicola Varco is a place in Eboli, near Salerno, where there is a farmers market... more

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China 'running illegal prisons'

China is running a number of unlawful detention centres in which its citizens can be... more

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From prison

The unjust and absurd death of Stefano Cucchi, and the suicide of the new Red brigade... more

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Supreme Court to review cases of juveniles sentenced to life in prison

Lawyers for two Florida men who were sentenced to life without parole as juveniles will argue to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday that the penalty is cruel and unusual.

With those words, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 declared that the execution of adolescents was cruel and unusual punishment, and, hence, a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling halted capital punishment for juveniles in 25 states.

On Monday, the lawyers for two Florida men who, as juveniles, were sentenced to life without parole for nonhomicides will ask the nation's highest court to declare the practice of incarcerating juveniles for the rest of their lives cruel and unusual, as well.

Life, the lawyers say, is different, too.

The Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on the two cases:. The case of Terrance Jamar Graham, convicted of armed robbery in Duval County, will be heard first at 10 a.m.; the appeal of Joe Sullivan, a convicted rapist from Pensacola, will be heard an hour later.

``What's at stake is that we have children who will die in prison because they have no right to parole, and there is no other option,'' said Paolo Annino, a Florida State University law professor who has been researching juvenile lifers for more than a decade. ``What's at stake is life and death.''

But for prosecutors, and some judges, the penultimate penalty of lifelong imprisonment is an important part of the nation's criminal justice tool box -- even for kids.

``Sentencing a juvenile to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is a weighty matter. Prosecutors do not seek such punishment lightly, nor do courts impose it without careful consideration,'' the National District Attorneys Association wrote in a ``friend of the court'' brief.

``But youthful offenders sometimes commit heinous crimes -- rapes, kidnappings, and violent robberies and assaults that may leave the victim maimed for life, or worse.''

For almost two decades, lawmakers and state juvenile justice administrators have mounted an unprecedented assault on youthful offenders -- prosecuting teens in adult court, sending them to military-style boot camps and imposing long sentences as their weapons.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/1323698.htmlLawyers for two Florida men who were sentenced to life without parole as juveniles... more