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Juvenile Justice and Race: An Uphill Climb to the Bottom

James Bell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Youth Violence, Disproportionality, Detention Policy, 2300-American-Kids-Serving-Life-Without-Parole, Detention, Prison, Juvenile Justice, Life-Without-Parole, Jail, Juvenile Dentention, Race, Nonviolent Offenders, Impact News
James Bell

Has it become an accepted fact of life in the United States that the machinery of justice applies almost solely to people of color?

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Jason Linkins

Rachel Maddow, Lynn Sweet Discuss Hysteria Over Gitmo Detainees (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Fearmongering, Gitmo, Detention, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Mark Kirk, Rachel Maddow, Lynn Sweet, Media News

Mark Kirk, frantically making hay, has bought the domain name noterroristsinillinois.com, the thinking being that the other magical Gitmo-based supervillains must be kept elsewhere to keep their superpowers at bay.

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The Least of These: Family Detention in America

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Corrections, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detainee Transfer Notification, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Dora Schriro, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Idp, Iirira, Immigrants Defense Project, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, International Office of Migration, Isap, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, National Detention Standards, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Trinidad Deportees, Family-Detention, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

Given the financial and other challenges of housing families in detention centers, Obama should consider more 'civil' alternatives available, such as releasing families into the community.

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The Faces of Detention and Deportation: Jean Murat Montrevil

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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Arlene M. Roberts

Instead of expending its resources to deport immigrants like Jean Murat Montrevil, ICE should exercise its discretion to grant Deferred Action.

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Obama Administration Won't Seek New Detention System

Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detention System, Obama Administration Guantanamo, Detention, Politics News

The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will ins...

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Time to De-ICE the Department of Corrections

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Iirira, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Department of Corrections, Dora Schriro, National Detention Standards, Detainee Transfer Notification, Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Trinidad-Deportees, New York News
Arlene M. Roberts

Dora Schriro, the new commissioner of corrections for New York City, should fight to remove Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from New York City's jails.

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An Obama Rendition Scenario

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detention, Terrorism, Satire, Barack Obama, Rendition, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Secret Prisons, Bush Rendition, U.S Rendition Policy, Obama Anti-Torture, Obama Rendition, Politics News
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

Obama recently ratified continuation of the U.S. rendition policy. Amazingly, I just received a recording from the near-future of an interrogation conducted under the new kinder, gentler rules. Let's listen in.

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The Faces of Detention and Deportation

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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Arlene M. Roberts

One persistent question regarding individuals who are in detention and subject to deportation is, "What is the nature of their offenses?"

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Silence Strengthens Opposition

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Weekly Immigration Wire, Wiretap Mag, Detention, Colorado Independent, Obama, Reform, Immigration, Ssn, New America Media, Racewire, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Enforcement, America's Voice, Tmc, New Mexico Independent, Obama Immigration, Immigration and Health Care, Politics News
The Media Consortium

Immigration reform and health care reform are inextricably connected. The ugly fact is that a third of all Hispanics in the U.S., almost half of the undocumented, lack health care.

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Bollywood Superstar's American Crash Landing

Sandip Roy | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Airport Security, Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, Detention, Shah Rukh Khan US, Entertainment News
Sandip Roy

President Obama, another White House meeting might be in order. Shah Rukh Khan and the Newark airport official and you. Except this time instead of beer, you might want to serve some chai.

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Necessary Reforms for Detained Asylum Seekers

Human Rights First | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Asylum Seekers, Human Rights, Detention, Asylum, Politics News
Human Rights First

Two new Senate bills -- the Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act and the Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Detention Act -- would provide safeguards to detained asylum seekers and immigrants.

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Anis Shivani

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Obama, Ari Melber, Marc Ambinder, Detention, Executive Order, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial. The proposal would cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside.

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The Bush Hangover: Guantanamo Undercuts Our Protests of North Korea

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: North Korea Journalists, Laura Ling, Detention, Lakhdar Boumediene, George W. Bush, 9/11, Guantanamo, Euna Lee, Republicans Torture, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Torture, North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The next time you see a Republican defend torture or Guantanamo, think of what is going on in North Korea now and what Lakhdar Boumediene went through.

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Torturing The Guilty vs. Abusing the Innocent

Steven Waldman | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Detention, Guantanamo Detainees, Habeas Corpus, Torture, World News
Steven Waldman

If there's going to be an investigation, it should be as much about figuring out how someone's innocence became "inconsequential."

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US Border Authorities Detain German Political Leader and Undermine American Brand

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Passports, Dulles International Airport, Turkey, Pia Castro, Germany, Cem Oezdemir, Detention, Visas, Immigration, Us-Customs-and-Border-Protection, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I think that every American should feel embarrassed by the treatment important guests of the United States received this past week at the hands of US Customs and Border Protection officials.

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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From Guantanamo to Accountability and Beyond

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Center, Presidential Powers, Office of the Pardon Attorney, US Accountability Project, Interrogation, Jonathan Mahler, Carolyn Patty Blum, Presidential Pardons, Open Society Institute, Military Commissions, Detention, The Challenge, International Center for Transitional Justice, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Violations, International Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Military Tribunals, Aclu, Pardons, Eric Stover, Laurel Fletcher, Osi, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

President-elect Obama made known his intention to close the Guantanamo detention facility. The projected closure raises a plethora of issues.

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President Elect Obama: Denounce and Renounce

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, David Addington, Detention, Barack Obama, Rendition, Torture, Cheney, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

This question needs to be asked of the president-elect: do you plan to denounce and renounce these extra-Constitutional ways of doing business, and the illegal policies that resulted, before you take office?

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