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Genarlow Wilson had served two years of a 10-year sentence in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.
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Nhem En, who was a photographer at the most notorious torture house of the Khmer Rouge regime, was called to be a witness at a coming trial of Khmer Rouge leaders.
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How Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz put himself in themiddle of the prisoner-detention issue — and went to jail for it.
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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed on behalf of a man who claims he was abducted by United States agents and tortured by them while imprisoned in Afghanistan.
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A 2005 Justice Department opinion provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, officials said.
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All but eight states now give inmates access to DNA evidence that might not have been available at the time of their convictions.
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The Military Commissions Act created a separate, substandard and clearly unconstitutional system of trial and punishment for foreigners. This week Congress has a chance to begin fixing that grievous mistake.
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Suffering from a catalog of physical ailments after serving 30 years in prison for murdering his wife, Charles E. Friedgood is seeking parole again next week.
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Even after removing racial bias in our judicial and prison system, disproportionate numbers of young black men will continue to be incarcerated.
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One of the leading lawyers for the inmates at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is being investigated for allegedly bringing contraband swimsuits and underwear to his clients.
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Republican lawmakers, liberal Christians and evangelical talk shows all criticized the government for creating a list of acceptable religious books.
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Chaplains in federal prisons have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials.
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The officer, Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, was found guilty of only one lesser offense, that of disobeying an order to refrain from discussing the case.
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A 50 percent increase in the number of detainees comes, officials said, because U.S. forces are operating in areas where they had not been present for some time.
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Arthur Bremer, the gunman who tried to kill Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, will be released from prison.
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A collection of (Pentagon-approved) poetry from detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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HBO has publicized the stories of a man and woman's decline into drugs and violence, but the tale of their shared redemption and coming marriage is less known.
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Prison overcrowding has corrections officials in at least eight states looking across state lines for scarce prison beds.
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The Americans and the Iraqi government have erected a legal Green Zone to shelter judges and secure the trials of some of Iraq's most dangerous suspects.
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Two judges took a major step toward solving California's prison crowding crisis by issuing orders to create a court charged with reducing the number of inmates.
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Stephen E. Abraham, a decorated reserve Army intelligence officer, may have played a key role in the Supreme Court's reversal of its stance on Guantánamo Bay prisoners.
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In a stinging legal challenge to the administration's detention policies, a ruling requires virtually all information to be shared with defense lawyers.
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Hundreds have been snatched by Pakistan's military and intelligence services since 2001, rights activists say.
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Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona said that Bush administration officials tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports.
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The Israeli government gave its approval for the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners to bolster the administration of Mahmoud Abbas.