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EMMA M. LIND ’09 of Lake Forest, Ill. and Winthrop House Associate Editorial Chair...
...this is providing legal traction for constitutional lawyers. The most obvious point of attack is the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One suit involving prisoners in a Wisconsin supermax has led to rulings requiring that mentally ill inmates be kept out of 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...
...well as a crime. It hosts the continent's only supervised heroin injection site, as well as a clinic dispensing free heroin in a scientific trial. But not much has changed at street level in the Downtown Eastside. Some 15,000 injection-drug addicts, many of them mentally ill, are concentrated in Canada's most impoverished neighborhood. An estimated 1500 female addicts continue to sell so called "survival sex," at all times and in all weather. Reporters interviewing the women about the Pickton trial were shocked to find that many didn't know about it, or care...
...people I had interviewed: three had been brutally beaten, they said, and two were under house arrest; a third-Sun Xuede, who had been elected with 85% of the vote-had disappeared. The four men were in Beijing to petition the central government for help. But their journey proved ill-fated. Police from Qixia intercepted them at the petitions office a few days later and forced them home. Back in Qixia, two were jailed for 38 days. In December 2001, Sun was sentenced to eight years in jail for breaking into a government office and embezzling public funds. He disputes...
...wants that effort to be led by Iraqi troops. But much of the Iraqi army in the capital is ill equipped and undisciplined, and many Iraqi army units hardly hide their sectarianism. That means the task of pacifying Sadr City may fall to U.S. troops. Under the Army's Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) doctrine, squads of troops would cordon off blocks of Baghdad and warily permeate them, shooting anyone who threatened them. Once a block had been sealed and secured, a protective force would remain there while troops moved on to the next...