In an editorial published Wednesday, the New York Times editorial board criticized the Obama administration for saying it will oppose the release of Tariq Ba Odah, a long-term hunger striker who's...
Lawyers and activists from across the country are convening in Harlem from Friday for a conference aimed at strengthening the legal strategy of the Black Lives Matter movement. Three women — Alicia...
In 1993, Craig Haney, a social psychologist, interviewed a group of inmates in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s toughest penal institution. He was studying the...
An Idaho law enacted to permit the state to jail anyone, who conducts undercover investigations and secretly records animal abuse, was rejected as unconstitutional by a federal judge today. The...
The military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have another problem to deal with: Cancer. The U.S. Navy acknowledged Monday that it is investigating concerns about possible carcinogens where the...
Nearly two weeks after a former Guantánamo attorney asked the Inspector General’s Office at the Pentagon to investigate whether the war court compound at the remote base was linked to seven cases of...
Signs at the war court compound warn that the water isn't potable. The tents and containers where many live sit atop a former dumping ground for jet fuel. Now some of the military and civilian...
Amid a spate of cancer diagnoses and deaths among colleagues who worked at Guantanamo Bay, a Navy reserves lawyer who worked on a war court case at the 45-square mile naval base in Cuba has lodged a...
A Guantanamo lawyer’s request for an investigation into cancer deaths among those working on detainee trials has gotten the attention of the U.S. Navy. Guantanamo base spokeswoman Kelly Wirfel said...
Despite promises to close the detention center during Barack Obama’s presidential run, the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base remains open. And now it appears those detained at the controversial...
