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About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
The 224-193 roll call Thursday by which the House rejected a Republican effort to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for trial.
Colorado authorities said they inadvertently released a sex offender from prison under a moneysaving early release initiative, prompting Republican lawmakers on Thursday to urge the state's Democratic governor to suspend the program.
President Barack Obama won a modest victory Tuesday in his continuing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees at the facility to the U.S. to be prosecuted.
The Libyan government released 88 repentant Islamic militants, some of them belonging to a group with suspected links to al-Qaida, a government-funded human rights group announced Thursday.
If the state weren't so pressed for cash, Joshua Gomes might still be behind bars. Instead, he's working temp jobs — at a construction site one week, a recycling plant another — and talks about going to college, teaching or joining the military.
Women make up only a tiny minority of more than 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, but they often pay a high personal price for what has largely been a supporting role in the Palestinian uprising.
A Zimbabwe official says 1,500 prisoners are being released across the country under a presidential amnesty program designed to ease overcrowding.
Seven men convicted of killing Grenada's leader in the 1983 coup that triggered a U.S. invasion strode out of prison on Saturday — the last of 17 who had been sentenced for the crime.
Political prisoners held in Cuba increased by one to 206 in the past six months, the first time the number has not dropped sharply since Raul Castro took over running the communist country three years ago.
To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists.
A leading rights activist says most of Cuba's 200 or more political prisoners would rather serve out long terms on the island than be part of an exchange for five communist agents imprisoned in the U.S., as Cuban President Raul Castro has suggested.
Ohio wants to use prisoners to replace Statehouse janitors and groundskeepers who were laid off because of budget cuts, angering a labor union.
The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret overseas prisons, agency Director Leon Panetta said Thursday.
It takes convict John Peterson four months of hard work to turn a wild, aggressive mustang into a saddle-trained horse.
A human rights group says Libya has released two political prisoners in another signal that the North African country is willing to change its policies.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba continues to fall gradually, but brief detentions of activists have soared under President Raul Castro's rule, with more than 1,500 documented last year, the island's leading independent rights group said Monday.
Three men convicted of killings in a 1983 coup in Grenada that triggered a U.S. invasion walked out of a hilltop prison on Thursday after serving 24 years behind bars.
U.S. military interrogators have often blasted music at detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. According to the British law group Reprieve, these are among the songs they have used most frequently:
Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel will free 250 prisoners as a goodwill gesture before an upcoming Muslim holiday.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped slightly but the overall rights situation remains "unfavorable" under President Raul Castro's government with more brief detentions of dissidents, the island's leading independent human rights group said Tuesday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the release of all Hamas activists detained in recent days by his security forces.
Lawmakers from California to Kentucky are trying to save money with a drastic and potentially dangerous budget-cutting proposal: releasing tens of thousands of convicts from prison, including drug addicts, thieves and even violent criminals.
Mexican officials are releasing more than 100 prisoners in southern Mexico after determining there is little or no evidence against them.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
Canadian officials discussed torture in 2006 - thestar.comOTTAWA – Top Canadian officials discussed in 2006 whether the then-governor of Kandahar was involved in the torture of prisoners and dismissed the concern, The Canadian Press has learned.
McCarthy explains why the Bush administration was unable to try the Guantanamo prisonersMcCarthy explains why the Bush administration was unable to try the Guantanamo prisoners
Britain faces investigation in Iraqi abuse allegations Defense officials say accusations taken seriouslyLONDON - Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the US-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain's Ministry of Defense said yesterday.
Guantanamo Uighurs sent to PalauSix Chinese Uighur prisoners from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the Pacific island nation of Palau, officials say. Lawyers for three of them said they had "arrived to freedom" early on Sunday.
Prisoners getting H1N1 before others at riskHere we are, more evidence of what we are in store for with the "government" run health care. Shortages, rationing and long lines, oh, unless you have committed crimes and are incarcerated. Unbelievable! These are the same pinheads that will be making our choices….
The High Price of Abu Ghraib Truth for Sam ProvanceSam Provance discusses the effects on his life of his being truthful about the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
Congress set to decide on prison abuse photos - Pentagon wants them kept from public releaseWASHINGTON - Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their US captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.
Nev. Sec. of State: ACORN Illegally Hired Prisoners for Voter Registration DrivesNevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a democrat, told Eric Shawn on FOX News that ACORN was hiring convicts still in prison -CONVICTED OF IDENTITY THEFT- for canvassing voters.
During his presidential campaign, President Obama pledged to end the use of secret prisons overseas, close Guantanamo Bay prison, and stop the abuse of suspected terrorists who are held prisoner by the United States. I commend him for this.
VIDEO: Released GITMO Detainee to Sue US Government Released after 7 years detention, a former Gitmo prisoner, Mohammed Jawad, is suing the U.S.
Getting out of Gitmo -- latimes.comIf President Obama reneges on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility this coming January, an important reason will be the hysterical oppostion in Congress to transferring some inmates to the Untied States.
Prisoners get drunk on swine flu hand gelAlcohol hand gel meant to combat swine flu has been banned from a prison after inmates started eating it and became embroiled in a drunken brawl.
Obama to Use Current Law to Support DetentionsWASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to seek new legislation from Congress authorizing the indefinite detention of about 50 terrorism suspects being held without charges at at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday.
NPE - Poland to send prisoners to Auschwitz for 'shock therapy'Authorities in southern Poland are to send prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a "shock therapy" programme intended to stop them re-offending.
Gift Swap to Hamas/Israeli Captives Shot Down or NOT!"The package for Shalit and the gifts for Hamas prisoners were exchanged on Thursday morning, in a symbolic reference to the prisoner swap that Shalit activists and Hamas have called for.
It's September now and we are coming to the point when the President wanted Guantanamo Bay to be closed. We have learned a little bit more about the prison since President Obama became President and have found out that it is one of the better Prisons that the US has.
A whopping Palestinian Arab lie"Sahar Francis said that "from the beginning of the Israeli occupation until now, there have been approximately 750,000 Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel. At the moment there are 8,100 detainees, including 60 women.
Many states consider early inmate release - Springfield, IL - The State Journal-Registerhe state has an average of 4.37 employees for every inmate, the board found, and personnel expenses are what drives costs in penal systems.
Iranian News Agency Reports Admission of Prisoner AbuseCAIRO — In what may be the first admission that a prisoner died from abuse by Iranian prison authorities in the wake of postelection unrest, a semiofficial news service reported Monday that the son of an adviser to a prominent conservative politician had died of "physical str …
Stimulus money sent to Prison InmatesThe federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.
So there I was, enjoying my days on Alcatraz, but summer was drawing to a close.
Plagiarizing poems A prisoners' newspaper at a U.K. jail may have to axe its poetry page if inmates don't stop plagiarizing poems in a bid to win a $37 prize.
At OpEdNews: Bush Torture Program Comes Back To Haunt AmericaWe must hold George W. Bush and his co-conspirators responsible for the crimes they have committed. Either the United States of America is a nation of laws, or it is not.
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