Since at least 1998, U.S. immigration authorities have used dental radiographs in their process for determining the age of migrants even though the technique has been widely discredited. Further,...
Updated: November 15, 2024
April 2009Reporting from Washington -- President Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out prosecuting senior Bush administration officials who provided the legal rationale for harsh interrogation...
Scott Brown's column repeated "facts" about the Guantanamo detainees that are not at all certain ("9/11 justice delayed," March 23).
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Updated: February 23, 2010
January 2015"P resident Barack Obama has made it a priority for his last two years in office to shrink the prisoner population at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp so much that it would become an economic burden...
June 12, 2015Minimum occupancy quotas at immigrant detention facilities nationwide benefit for-profit prison operators by guaranteeing the government pays for thousands of detainees, regardless of whether those...
June 12, 2015A Champaign County judge has ordered the University of Illinois to turn over thousands of pages of emails sought by a professor suing the school over a rescinded job offer. Judge Thomas Difanis said...
August 3, 2015In 1993, Craig Haney, a social psychologist, interviewed a group of inmates in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s toughest penal institution. He was studying the...
September 1, 2015In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
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