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Michigan: Send Us Your Prisoners

By | 07.10.09 | 12:17 pm

The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) is looking to stimulate the local economy by importing prisoners from out-of-state.

California and Michigan prison officials continue to negotiate a move of California prisoners to two of Michigan’s soon to be closed prisons. Michigan officials have been

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No One’s Ever Broken Out of a Supermax

By | 05.21.09 | 12:07 pm

President Obama:

As we make these decisions, bear in mind the following fact: nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal “supermax” prisons, which hold hundreds of convicted terrorists.

Leann LaRiva is the public information office for the federal penetentiary in Florence, Colo., commonly known as ADX Florence. More…

U.K. Lawyer: Gitmo Abuse Has Worsened Since Obama Inauguration

By | 02.26.09 | 8:57 am

According to a lawyer with the respected British human rights group Reprieve, abuse of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has actually gotten worse since President Obama took office.

Obama Justice Department Backs Bush on Bagram

By | 02.20.09 | 8:04 pm

President Obama’s Justice Department today, in a two-sentence filing, backed the Bush administration’s position on the 600 or more detainees being held at the U.S. military’s detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The department reaffirmed that the prisoners are not entitled to any constitutional rights and, most importantly, More…

Rights Groups Demand Full Access to Gitmo

By | 01.30.09 | 3:43 pm

President Obama really opened a big fat can of worms when he issued those executive orders last week.  Not only did he make all sorts of promises on state secrets that he’s now being called on to fulfill, but in promising to review the conditions of detention at More…

NIMBY-ers Hope to Scuttle Gitmo Closure

By | 01.26.09 | 1:12 pm

TPM has a great roundup today of the escalating Republican argument that closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility could be all but impossible because — surprise! — nobody seems to want those scary terrorists in their neighborhood.

Murderers, rapists, child molesters, and even convicted terrorists like Zacarias Moussaoui who More…