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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.
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.
How Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz put himself in themiddle of the prisoner-detention issue — and went to jail for it.
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.
A 2005 Justice Department opinion provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, officials said.
All but eight states now give inmates access to DNA evidence that might not have been available at the time of their convictions.
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.
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.
Even after removing racial bias in our judicial and prison system, disproportionate numbers of young black men will continue to be incarcerated.
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.
Republican lawmakers, liberal Christians and evangelical talk shows all criticized the government for creating a list of acceptable religious books.
Chaplains in federal prisons have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials.
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.
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.
Arthur Bremer, the gunman who tried to kill Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, will be released from prison.
A collection of (Pentagon-approved) poetry from detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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.
Prison overcrowding has corrections officials in at least eight states looking across state lines for scarce prison beds.
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.
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.
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.
In a stinging legal challenge to the administration's detention policies, a ruling requires virtually all information to be shared with defense lawyers.
Hundreds have been snatched by Pakistan's military and intelligence services since 2001, rights activists say.
Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona said that Bush administration officials tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports.
The Israeli government gave its approval for the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners to bolster the administration of Mahmoud Abbas.
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