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...completed. Federal officials toured Standish at least once last summer. Granholm said she told the officials that she wasn't going to be open to the idea "unless they could demonstrate this wouldn't put a target on Michigan. It'd be a difficult sell, politically." David Fathi, U.S. program director at Human Rights Watch in Washington, urges caution in the rush of states moving into the business of transporting prisoners. "There's a risk that conditions will deteriorate as corners are cut to make more money," he says. (See TIME's graphic "Detroit: Now a Ghost Town...
...Civil rights groups say any kind of castration, even if reversible, could take society down the road to eugenics. A 1985 U.S. Supreme Court ruling said that involuntary surgical castration constituted cruel and unusual punishment. David Fathi, head of Human Rights Watch's U.S. program in Washington, says the Czech methods not only defy medical convention but also are an affront to civil liberties. "Any irreversible punishment is a fundamental violation of human rights. And any kind of mutilation is barbaric," he says...
...Fathi says rehabilitation of sex offenders is far more effective than castration. "There are no easy answers," he says. "But castration does not work any more than cutting off hands treats kleptomania...
...such facilities. The state is challenging the decisions, and arguments will be heard in February, but at least six other states have fought similar suits, and all of them have failed. "So far, the prisoners are batting a thousand on the issue of mentally ill inmates," says David Fathi, a senior staff counsel with the A.C.L.U...
...Leila Fathi, 20, a law student at the University of Nanterre, outside Paris, has been spending every day of her spring break in the library. After four weeks of demonstrations during which her university was blocked and idle, she and her co-students have a lot of catching up to do before exams. Fathi was in the thick of the protests. "We always knew we would win," she says. "Of course the government had to back away from their law after such a show of force, but who would have thought it would take four weeks of protests to bring...