Iran's supreme leader ordered the closure of a prison where rights workers say protesters detained in the country's election turmoil have died, officials said Tuesday.

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Add this to the Bush administration's sordid legacy: a refusal to investigate charges that forces commanded by a notorious Afghan warlord — and American ally — massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war in late 2001.

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The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of its prisoners.

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Persuading public officials to adopt a more rational approach to prison policy is a daunting prospect, not least because building and running jailhouses has become a major industry.

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A man is working to make sure public officials in Alabama know that some felons there still have the right to vote.

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A Hasidic rabbi serving a federal fraud sentence says his ability to pray has been violated by the Bureau of Prisons' insistence that he pray in his cell, which contains a toilet.

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America spends millions of dollars bolstering public diplomacy to the Islamic world — and then undoes it all with Guantánamo Bay.

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The American troop increase in Iraq over the past year has been accompanied by waves of new Iraqi detainees, inundating the country's already overburdened prisons and courts.

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The fate of the first detainee to die of natural causes at Guantánamo Bay reveals the problems of military tribunals, Afghans say.

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Mr. James was a British flier in World War II obsessed with escape plots during his five years in German captivity, most prominently the breakout portrayed in the movie "The Great Escape."

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That's the real-life question taking place in Sweden. What do you think? excerpt: "It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.

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The U.S. and Yemen disagree over how to best fight terrorism in that country, a key recruiting ground and refuge for Islamist militants in the past two decades.

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Federal authorities expect to identify and deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are convicted criminals serving time in prisons across the country.

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The Innocence Project has proposed some important reforms that states should use in upgrading their criminal justice system.

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Efforts to scale back the U.S. detention center at the Bagram military base are failing, and its conditions have drawn a strong complaint from the Red Cross.

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Close to an honorable discharge from the Army, a former inmate at Rikers Island jail is finding that what the Army forgave is remembered at home.

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Charles Chatman was released after nearly 27 years in prison after a DNA sample recently taken from him did not match the profile from a rape victim's vaginal swab of 1981.

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As enthusiasm for executions fell elsewhere, more than 60 percent of all U.S. executions took place in Texas this year.

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A declassified document shows J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to imprison 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

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For many New Jersey lawmakers, the change of heart on the topic of the death penalty was something of a spiritual eureka moment.

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The work of Jay Salpeter, a former New York City homicide detective, was crucial in winning a new trail for a man imprisoned half his life.

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Nearly 100 suspected terrorists have been released in an apparent effort to avoid acknowledging secret detentions.

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The Justice Department has urged a federal judge not to hold a hearing on the Central Intelligence Agency's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected Al Qaeda operatives.

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