Prisons

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• Anmesty Calls on Yemen to End Widespread Torture

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 507
  Its so brutal. Click here for first hand testimony from tortured prisoners. Amnesty International PUBLIC STATEMENT 27 November 2009 Index: MDE 31/017/2009 Yemen: Government should announce commitment to tackle ‘widespread’ torture Amnesty International today urged the Yemeni government to publicly ...
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• Online Fury at Life of Luxury in Prisons

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  Online photos of luxurious prisons have infuriated some netizens. From Southern China Morning Post : Mainland internet users are up in arms after pictures of a series of luxurious new prisons were posted online this week, a stark contrast to the shabbily built “tofu” schools that collapsed in last year’s ...
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• Editorial: When Prisoners Phone Home

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Families of inmates in New York State lost a suit seeking damages for exorbitant phone rates, but they did show that prisons shouldn’t be using inmates’ families to balance budgets.
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• How does bringing our enemies into our country make us any safer? What is the advantage?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 169
  Please point out to me, in real terms, how bringing terrorists into our country will make us safer. How are American prisons, which are already overrun, more secure than Gitmo which is on a foreign island far away from Americans? You can’t just say that enforcing the law makes us safer… HOW? How does it make us ...
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• Bad politicians are slave to public opinion. Good politicians try to change it | Polly Toynbee

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Social scientists now need to take a leaf out of David Nutts book, and speak out on bad policies – yet recognise politics is an art The latest culture clash between politics and science sent a spasm of anger and alarm through every academic discipline. The sacking of Professor David Nutt as head of the Advisory ...
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• ID - Prison officials hearing more reports of male rape

  
  Sex Offender Issues — Authority: 152
  View the article here 11/27/2009 By Andrea Jackson Idaho Department of Correction ( Contact ) officials expect more charges of male rape to be filed against inmates after a former Magic Valley convict became the first Idaho prisoner to ever be found guilty of the crime from behind bars last week. An Ada ...
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• Terrorists feasting on fresh chicken, beef, eggs, and milk in Pak prisons!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Lahore, Nov.27 (ANI): Its not all that bad to be a prisoner in Pakistan, as one can enjoy sumptuous meals consisting chicken and farm fresh milk while in custody.There may be overcrowding in Pakistani jails, but there is no lack of quality food for the prisoners there.Officials admitted that there are numerous ...
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• An Alternative to Us Prison Systems

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
    According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are over two million people incarcerated in the United States! That is too many and there are several alternatives that are possible to bring that number down:   1) Christian based rehab! This option should only be available to Christians as I don’t ...
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• World Briefing | Africa: Tunisia: Journalist Gets 6 Months in Jail

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A journalist known for his critical stance toward Tunisia’s government, Taoufik Ben Brik, was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail on an assault charge.
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• A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  Bunk beds are seen in a room in a black jail in Beijing in August 2009. Activists said more than a dozen illegal detention centers known as black jails exist in Beijing.
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• Freedom & Life: Of Turkeys & Men by Sibel Edmonds + Bagram Prison Exposed

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  "Dear Mr. President: Today is the official Presidential Turkey Pardon Day for 2009, your very first since taking office. I understand you are planning to fly your pardoned bird(s) First Class to California, where they will live at Big Thunder Ranch at Disneyland. How lucky are these birds, how kind of you to value ...
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• UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 565
  Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was tied in with a “dirty bomb plot” that never even existed . After his ordeal in Morocco, ...
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• Caller: Will Obamacare impact prison overcrowding?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Caller: Thank you for taking my call. Im pondering the unemployment numbers and this healthcare bill with the mandate. Im wondering if this will exacerbate the prison overpopulation problem? Tom Ashbrook: What do you mean? Caller: If theres over 10 percent unemployment, I dont think American prisons handle that many ...
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• Failing our young black men | Peter Herbert

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The news that most young black men are on the DNA database is further evidence of the failure of a policing and prisons agenda The recent debate about the accuracy of the statistics as to whether half or three quarters of all young black men are on the DNA database presupposes that this is of only marginal ...
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• Georges, Roman Polanski et justice suisse

  
  THE BLORG! Corp — Authority: 140
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• Don Martin: Generals cut into Colvins detainee testimony(Afghanistan torture allegations)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  OTTAWA — When Cabinet ministers were attacking diplomat Richard Colvin’s credibility and denying his warnings about the Afghan torture of detainees handed over by Canadian soldiers, it wasn’t a fair fight. Mr. Colvin triumphed because he had spent 18 months on Afghan soil, visited its prisons and talked ...
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• Jammu and Kashmir to get more prisons

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Jammu, Nov 26 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government plans to set up more prisons over the next four years to decongest the existing ones.The new jails would be built in all the new district headquarters. Since July 2006, eight new districts have come up in the state, taking their total number from 14 to [...]
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• Torture claim has little impact in Afghanistan: soldiers

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  Allegations that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured have had little impact on troops in Afghanistan, say soldiers returning to Ottawa from a tour of duty there.
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• Freedom & Life: Of Turkeys & Men by Sibel Edmonds + Bagram Prison Exposed

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Sibel EdmondsFeatured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post25 November 2009Freedom & Life: Of Turkeys & MenDear Mr. President:Today is the official Presidential Turkey Pardon Day for 2009, your very first since taking office.  I understand you are planning to fly your pardoned ...
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• New Spy Charge for U.S.-Iranian Scholar

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  An Iranian-American scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, already serving a 15-year jail sentence for spying, is facing a new charge of spying, a family member said Wednesday.
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