Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani cleared of 284 terror charges
Setback for Obama as first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian court is convicted on just one of 285 charges Chris McGreal Guardian…
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Torture in US Prisons
Stephen Lendman Rense In March 2005, a UK Deborah Davis Channel 4 report titled, “Torture, Inc., America’s Brutal Prisons” highlighted the horrors, including prisoners savaged…
Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists…
Private prison industry helped draft AZ immigration law
A private corrections company helped write and lobbied hard for a draconian bill that’ll help fill their cells Alex Pareene Salon When it comes to…
Federal Court Rules Details of Secret Prison in Afghanistan Can Remain Secret
Noel Brinkerhoff AllGov.com Details about the United States’ largest prison in Afghanistan will remain secret, according to a federal judge’s ruling this week. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)…
New Military Secret Prison Scandal
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Incarceration’s Impact on Society is Shameful
Bob Ray Sanders McCatchy News You won’t need a calculator, but get ready to decipher a bunch of numbers — data that ought to make…
Economic Bright Spot: Dying communities see salvation in new prisons
Kathy Mccormack Associated Press BERLIN, N.H. — Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison. Fresh with a criminal justice degree from the local community…
Cash-Strapped States Resurrect “Debtors’ Prisons”
Nadia Prupis Truth Out Two reports published by NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveal a rising trend of…
Can We Try a Man We Tortured?
Will accused major terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ever end up in a federal courtroom? The answer is yes—starting right now. FBI/Zumapress.com Karen Greenberg — Mother…
The Prison Industry: Big Business or New Form of Slavery
Vicky Pelaez NORML HUMAN rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation…
Congress looks at laws that criminalize non-criminal behavior
Lesley Clark McClatchy News WASHINGTON — Abner Schoenwetter, a Miami seafood importer, spent six years in prison, paid tens of thousands of dollars in fines…
David Icke Explains The Creation of Money and Its Use to Enslave Humanity
Cameraman arrested for calling cops Nazis
Prison Planet Account from the Prisonplanet.com reader who was arrested On Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at around 7:45pm I returned home to find one cop…