During his 19-year tenure on the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland established a mixed record on legal issues surrounding the post-Sept. 11...
Attorneys urged the D.C. Circuit to revive claims that federal prisons single out Muslim inmates for isolation units where their communications face 24-7 surveillance. The Center for Constitutional...
Students from a wide coalition at the University of Minnesota recently launched a divestment campaign to urge the administration to pull its investments in four companies that profit from Israel’s...
Yassin Aref, the Albany imam sent to federal prison after being convicted of material support for terrorism, is part of a case heard in court this week involving inmates challenging confinement in...
I've now spent more than twenty-seven years in solitary confinement, aka Security Housing Units (SHU). My original six-year term started in 1984 and was eventually increased to twenty-one years to...
In the last comprehensive review of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. government decided nearly 50 were ‘‘too dangerous to transfer but not feasible for prosecution,’’ leaving them in an...
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) meets in Washington this week for its annual police conference, the issue of the BDS movement —Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions—will certainly be...
A new NYPD form will require cops to explain in greater detail why they conduct any stop — and it does away with what critics considered catch-all excuses for making stops, such as “furtive movements...
The court-appointed monitor of NYPD stop-and-frisk practices has officially filed a new reporting form that encourages officers to write a narrative of the reasons for a stop instead of relying on...
A second animal rights activist was sentenced Wednesday in a case dating back to 2014, in which two men were accused of releasing some 2,000 minks from a fur farm in Morris, Illinois. ... ... The...
