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10 Nov 2015, 4:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And liberals listened, moon-eyed, while some extremely religious people spoke of atonement, redemption, and the biblical mandate to minister to prisoners. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 8:16 am by Benjamin Wittes
Most prisoners’ JTF assessment files, however, are a toxic mixture of misinformation abused out of the prisoner in Gitmo; extracted from a different prisoner in one of the CIA’s torture facilities; or, most often of all, fabricated by one of Guantánamo’s serial informants. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 8:16 am by Benjamin Wittes
Most prisoners’ JTF assessment files, however, are a toxic mixture of misinformation abused out of the prisoner in Gitmo; extracted from a different prisoner in one of the CIA’s torture facilities; or, most often of all, fabricated by one of Guantánamo’s serial informants. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 6:01 am by Administrator
As these proceedings unfold, Canadian law reformers can harness the expertise and energy emerging from an American-based, but increasingly global, social movement contesting solitary confinement. [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 7:12 pm
More serious is the case of two Zimbabwean citizens who, only 48 hours after allegedly having robbed a group of foreign journalists, could embark on their fifteen years prison sentence. [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 12:25 am by David Kopel
The major criminal law treatise of the 18th century and for several decades of the 19th century was William Hawkins “Pleas of the Crown”  (1716). [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:09 am by Ingrid Wuerth
 The President’s veto last week of the NDAA was based in part on his objection to the restrictions it places on such transfers. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 10:26 am by Deborah Pearlstein
 Indeed, Congress has not imposed anything like the current restrictions on the exchange, transfer or release of prisoners, during or after the period of armed conflict in any of the previous conflicts over the past century. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 11:24 pm by Andres
Bassel Khartabil, who was forced by restraint to remain in Syria, is yet another of these prisoners whose number is hard to establish: one speaks of 8,000 prisoners, of which 600 women, only in Adra prison, three times its nominal capacity. [read post]
6 Oct 2015, 12:23 am
Source: Amnesty International (4 October 2015)https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/japan-prisoner-dies-after-46-years-on-death-row/The death in prison of a Japanese man who spent more than 46 years facing execution, after a conviction based on a forced "confession", underlines the urgent need for a review of all similar cases, Amnesty International said today.Okunishi Masaru passed away at Hachioji Medical Prison on Sunday, aged 89. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 6:00 am by Douglas E. Abrams
Davis, perhaps the 20th century’s greatest Supreme Court advocate, understood his judicial audience. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 4:46 am by Betty Lupinacci
The movie is based on a fictional novel about the land tax laws under the colonial system in British India and combines socio-economic, religious, legal, and political issues, which are all resolved through a very simple cricket match. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 4:00 am by Eric Appleby
Based on history, I submit that a young person should be optimistic about our future. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 10:50 am
I’ve recently been blogging about my new article, The Inherent-Powers Corollary: Judicial Non-Delegation and Federal Common Law, which I’ve posted to SSRN. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 4:25 pm by INFORRM
 Sure, the Thai monarchy could be said to enjoy a certain degree of power, in view of the 25-year prison sentence imposed earlier this year on a businessman for some Facebook musings. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Priests and activists say ISIS militants wrecked an Assyrian Catholic church inside the monastery that dates back to the first Christian centuries. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 5:26 am by Jeff Gamso
 #poor people's lives matter.*)  So a quarter century it was. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 11:25 am by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
It is unclear whether the United States would use the second base to launch offensive strikes against the Islamic State. [read post]