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What's more, inmates aren't the only ones hurt by extreme incarceration. People like Padilla or the Guant??namo Bay detainees are, in theory, resources for information about the extremist groups with which they are putatively associated. "To an overwhelming degree, such people are not threats behind bars. They're opportunities," says Grassian. "We hurt ourselves by destroying their sanity." Closer to home, prisoners serving sentences for more mundane crimes do sometimes get released. Demolish their psyches while they're in prison, and nobody's safer when they...
...going to look back at some of the mistakes they made and then build a case on readiness. I think it's just like everything else: you have to build a case for what you want to do. We can take some dramatic steps--close Guant??namo, get our troops out of Baghdad. And then we need to put money into increasing the readiness...
Charles “Cully” D. Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, sparked outrage from the legal community after urging corporations to cut their ties with firms that have lawyers doing pro bono work for Guant??namo Bay detainees on Federal News Radio last Thursday...
...American legal tradition has honored lawyers who, despite their personal beliefs, have zealously represented mass murderers, suspected terrorists, and Nazi marchers,” the letter, dated Monday, said. “At this moment in time, when our courts have endorsed the right of the Guant??namo detainees to be heard in courts of law, it is critical that qualified lawyers provide effective representation to these individuals...
...interview with Federal News Radio, Stimson listed the names of several major law firms with lawyers defending Guant??namo detainees, suggesting that they be boycotted. Though these lawyers—coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights—work pro bono, Stimson suggested that they were “receiving moneys from who knows where...