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...JUSTICE 9 Months that David Hicks will serve in an Australian jail, after five years held without trial at Guantánamo Bay, upon pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorism 20 Years American John Walker Lindh is serving in federal prison for serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. Lindh's lawyers are seeking a reduced sentence in light of Hicks' punishment
...indeed, the South looks North and sees the U.S. growling: the Wall rises in Arizona. Eagle Pass, Texas, adopts a zero-tolerance policy called Operation Streamline, in which border agents stop sending migrants home and send them to jail instead. Colorado proposes paying prison inmates 60¢ a day to pick the peppers once harvested by undocumented workers. If Bush's hard line can persuade enough Republicans to embrace "comprehensive" reform--a balance of tough enforcement and some eventual reckoning with the 12 million illegal immigrants already here--then he can test whether, on this one issue at least...
...jail wastes a body quickly. When I entered Cell 6 at Gwanda police station, I was fit. After five days in a concrete and iron-bar tank, with no food and only a few sips of water, my skin was flaking and my clothes were slipping off. A prison blanket had given me lice. The water I had palmed from a rusty tap in the shower had given me diarrhea. Under a 24-hour strip light, I hadn't slept more than a few minutes at a time. And I stank. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that...
...according to the government. One military ruler alone stole some $6 billion. Obasanjo set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (efcc), which says it has recovered $5 billion of stolen assets, going after ministers and governors, and even prosecuting the chief of police, who served six months in jail...
...provided The Crimson with documents showing Godelia had been charged three times for criminal trespass, once for sexual assault, and once for burglary between 1994 and 1998; all of those charges were dropped except two of the criminal trespass charges, each leading to a year’s jail sentence for Godelia. (Godelia said he spent less than five months in jail...