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CIA Secret Prison in Lithuania
A CIA secret prison was uncovered in Lithuania in a stable that was once used for a riding academy. ABC news aired video of the prison and revealed the cooperation of the Lithuanian Secret Service and "US front companies."
Tags: Lithuanian; government; Secret Service; torture; detainee detention
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Careless Detention
Four-part series on the medical treatment of immigrant detainees in the United States. Goldstein and Priest exposed the shoddy, unethical and, at times, fatal treatment of immigrants during their detentions and as they were being deported to their native countries. Their stories led readers deep inside America's network of immigration prisons--a world that had grown exponentially in the years since 9/11, yet remained largely unknown and hidden from view. Their stories documented the deaths of 83 detainees. And in one of the most stunning revelation, Goldstein and Priest disclosed the previously unreported scope of a practice of forcible sedation of immigrants with dangerous psychotropic drugs during deportation to their native countries; they found more than 250 instances in which the drugs were used on people with no history of psychiatric problems. Their stories also revealed that the most prevalent cause of death among the immigrant detainees is suicide, including the hangings of detainees known to be in such fragile mental health that they had been assigned suicide watchers. They profiled the slipshod treatment of an ailing Korean immigrant, a legal U.S. resident for three decades detained in a rail in the Arizona desert, with a history of recurrent cancer. And they documented the flawed medical practices, bureaucratic ineptitude, sloppy record-keeping and staff shortages that cause detainees who are sick to suffer and sometimes to die.
Tags: detained immigrants; September 11th; 9/11; medical treatment of prisoners; immigration prison; HIPAA
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Guantanamo Detainees
The series shows who is in the detention center, why they're in there and how they were captured. "The stories, based on interviews and testimony in the transcripts, describe the difficulty in distinguishing the enemy from noncombatants and the obstacles detainees face in confronting often murky evidence against them."
Tags: terrorism; Guantanamo Bay; transcript; suicides; military; prison
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Limbo
A Times investigation into the military's system of justice for foreign terror suspects reveals "new information about the physical and legal treatment of the detainees." Among the major stories the Times broke were: "the use of harsh methods to break a series of hunger strikes at Guantanamo; the largely secret evolution of the military detention facility at Bagram, Afghanistan into another Guantanamo-type facility; the reasons for the collapse of an ambitious two-year effort to prosecute military personnel for abuses at Bagram; the obstacles to American government efforts to repatriate many of the Guantanamo prisoners and the story of attempts by senior Bush Administration officials to press for sweeping changes in the detention system." The Times also reported on the power struggle between military officials and detainees for control of Guantanamo, a situation the military denied.
Tags: Guantanamo; terror suspects; terror detainees; prisoners; Bagram, Afghanistan
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Slammed
The New Times examines the conditions at the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. The series reveals "evidence of physical, sexual and verbal abuse of juvenile detainees by staff, inadequate mental health services and instances where kids were kept in detention far longer than their recommended time of stay." One of the stories focused on how the department was providing substandard education. Another article shed light on the vicious practice of using solitary confinement as punishment for days or weeks, without allowing the detainees to go to classes or to the bathroom. The conditions deteriorated after a federal court order requiring the department to be monitored expired in 1998, the Times reports. Juveniles are released when they turn 18 without any adequate preparation or support.
Tags: FOIA; Arizona's public records law; juvenile justice; children; psychiatry; mental health; incarceration; drugs; crime
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Locked Up Tight
About 3,000 detainees sit in U.S. jails for months or years in indefinite detention, some of whom detained on secret evidence. They are entrapped in a Catch-22 of immigration law: they don't qualify for entry to this country, but there is nowhere else to send them. More than 90 percent of all immigrants detained through use of secret evidence are Muslims of Arabic descent.
Tags: indefinite detention; immigration; secret evidence; detainees
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As the federal government cracks down on immigrants, INS detention centers are overflowing-as are the files containing documentation of inhumane conditions and physical abuse. CovertAction Quarterly investigates abuse and mistreatment of "aliens" and political refugees as overcrowding in detention centers forces the INS to transfer detainees to local jails.
Tags: Dow Behind the Razor Wire Immigration and Naturalization Service Human rights offences Racism pgs.