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Updated: September 27, 2010
August 2007Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees' alleged that U.S. violated its own rules in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals after it labeled hundreds of prisoners as enemy combatants.
March 2006On June 28,2004, the Supreme Court declared that, in Rasul v. Bush, 14 enemy combatants held in Guantanamo Bay could challenge their imprisonment in a federal court.
April 2007After drawing wide criticism for attempting to prohibit basic right's of detainees, the U.S. declared it would not limit detainees' visits with attorneys.
March 2007The New York State Court of appeals will allow a lawsuit filed by CCR to proceed, which challenges the constitutionality of the NYSDOCS prison telephone contract.
January 2007Governor Eliot Spitzer says excessive telephone charges paid by the families of state inmates will be reduced by April to the cost of regular calls.
February 2007U.S. appeals court rules that Guantanamo detainees don’t have a right to habeas corpus.
February 2007Federal appeals court upholds new law which denies federal judges the right to review Guantanamo detainees' challenges to their detention.
December 2006Guantanamo review boards often fall short as a source of due process for detainees.
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