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Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Richard A. Oppel Jr. - May. 18 (News) - The conviction that private prisons save money helped drive more than 30 states to turn to them for housing inmates. But Arizona shows that popular wisdom might be wrong: Data there suggest that privately operated prisons can cost more to operate than state-run prisons — even though they often steer clear of the sickest, costliest inmates.

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Bin Laden Raid Revives Debate on Value of Torture

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Scott Shane, Charlie Savage - May. 04 (News Report) - The raid that led to Bin Laden’s death has raised anew the issue of using torture to gain intelligence.

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North Korea 'holding 200,000 prisoners'

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Al Jazeera - May. 04 (News) - Amnesty International says new images and testimony point to terrible conditions in huge network of prison camps.

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WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Peter Finn - Apr. 25 (Special Report) - Cache of classified military documents also offers tantalizing glimpses into operations of Osama bin Laden right after Sept. 11 attacks.

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Guantanamo Bay: Why Obama hasn’t fulfilled his promise to close the facility

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Peter Finn, Anne E. Kornblut - Apr. 24 (Investigative Report) - This account of the unraveling of Obama’s pledge to close Guantanamo is based on interviews with more than 30 current and former administration officials, as well as members of Congress and their staff, members of the George W. Bush administration, and activists. Many of them would speak about internal or sensitive deliberations only on the condition of anonymity.

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WikiLeaks suspect Manning will be transferred from Quantico to Fort Leavenworth

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has spent the last nine months isolated in a Marine jail as the man suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, will be moved from his tiny cell in Quantico to a new Army facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., better suited to long-term detainees, military and defense officials said Tuesday. The move, which follows intense international criticism about Manning’s treatment, will be “imminent,” Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson said. One military official said it is expected to happen Wednesday.

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Britain to reassert worries about WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning’s treatment

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karla Adam - Apr. 06 (News Report) - British diplomats said Tuesday that they will restate to the State Department their concerns about the U.S. military’s treatment of Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier who is accused of supplying confidential diplomatic files to the WikiLeaks Web site.

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Prisons look to share food costs with Ohio State

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Ann Sanner - Mar. 25 (News) - Looking for ways to save money, the state's correction department and Ohio State University are exploring whether to buy food jointly and in bulk.

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Clinton aide quits over Manning's treatment

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Ed Henry - Mar. 14 (News) - P.J. Crowley abruptly resigned Sunday as State Department spokesman over controversial comments he made about the Bradley Manning case.

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Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Finn, Anne E. Kornblut - Mar. 08 (News Report) - President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration also said it will start new military commission trials for detainees there.

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Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Mar. 07 (News Report) - The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.

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Soldier Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Charlie Savage - Mar. 03 (News) - The Army announced 22 additional charges on Wednesday against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the military intelligence analyst who is accused of leaking a trove of government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.

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Soldier in Leaks Case Was Jailed Naked, Lawyer Says

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Charlie Savage - Mar. 03 (News) - A lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret government files to WikiLeaks, has complained that his client was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours on Wednesday.

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Past medical testing on humans revealed

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Mike Stobbe - Feb. 27 (Special Report) - Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.

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Conservatives latch onto prison reform

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Richard Fausset - Jan. 29 (News Report) - Reduced sentences and rehabilitation programs once were branded as liberal. But now, states such as Republican-dominated Texas are seeing success after adopting the approach.

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Loughner researched lethal injection before Tucson shooting, sources say

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sari Horwitz - Jan. 26 (News Report) - In the weeks and days before the shooting rampage in Tucson, suspect Jared Lee Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer in what investigators believe was an effort to prepare for his alleged assassination attempt, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said.

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U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Jim Miklaszewski - Jan. 25 (News Report) - U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

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Documents raise questions on treatment of detainees

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jennifer Rizzo - Jan. 22 (News Report) - New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show "unjustified homicide" of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU. Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S. detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday. The U.S. military gave the ACLU the documents earlier in the week as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the rights group.

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Lawyer for Bradley Manning, Army figure in WikiLeaks case, alleges prison mistreatment

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima - Jan. 21 (News Report) - The lawyer for alleged government secrets leaker Bradley Manning is accusing military authorities of using punitive measures against Manning at the Marine Corps jail in Quantico, Va.

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Man gets life without parole in gruesome Ohio murders

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Jan. 07 (News) - An Ohio man pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to life without parole for killing and dismembering a woman, her son and her friend and hiding their bagged remains in the hollow of a tree.

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Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Kim Severson, Robbie Brown - Jan. 03 (News) - The recent rise in smartphones raises larger issues for prisoners and their advocates, who say the phones are not necessarily used for criminal purposes. In some prisons, a traditional phone call is prohibitive, costing $1 per minute in many states. And cellphones can help some offenders stay better connected with their families.

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Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sarah Wheaton - Dec. 13 (News Report) - The prison protest has entered the wireless age. Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons.

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Ahmed Ghailani, Gitmo detainee, acquitted of all but 1 charge in N.Y.

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Tom Hays - Nov. 18 (News Report) - The first former Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in federal criminal court was found guilty on a single conspiracy charge Wednesday but cleared on 284 other counts. The outcome, a surprise, seriously undermines - and could doom - the Obama administration's plans to put other Guantanamo detainees on trial in U.S. civilian courts.

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Dead People Received $18 Million In Stimulus Checks

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Oct. 07 (News) - More than 89,000 stimulus payments totaling millions of dollars went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report.

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Execution Of Virginia Woman Stirs Objections

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Kathy Lohr - Sep. 30 (News) - The 41-year-old woman was sentenced to death by lethal injection after pleading guilty to being the mastermind in a plot to kill her husband and stepson. But her supporters argued her low IQ should have exempted her from the death penalty.

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