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...move meant to ease the "mental anguish" of prison inmates and make it possible to put them to work, Kenya's president has commuted the sentences of the 4,000 people on death row to life imprisonment...
...Experts and rights activists have welcomed the new decree, but are greeting Kibaki's justification with some skepticism. Just as likely a culprit for the inmates' "undue mental anguish" is the fact that conditions in Kenya's prisons are, by most accounts, absolutely horrifying. Rights groups have repeatedly documented cases of death, torture, malnutrition and severe overcrowding within Kenya's prison system. (Read: "In Kenya, Charges of High-Level Conspiracies...
...President Obama's interagency task force on detention policy is considering such a plan, and the most likely locations are the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and a soon-to-close maximum-security prison in Standish, Mich. The proposal calls for a facility that will include a detention center for terror suspects, courtrooms for criminal trials and military commissions, and a prison for those they sentence. The facility - to be run jointly by the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense - would also house suspects being indefinitely detained, as well as those who have been found innocent...
...Representative Jerry Moran, both Kansas Republicans, are leading the not-in-our-backyard brigade at Fort Leavenworth; both have denounced the task force's proposal as a bad idea. (There are indications that there may be local support for the Standish plan, which would save the 600-cell prison from imminent closure and preserve local jobs.) "My belief is that at this point those prisoners belong in Guantánamo Bay," Moran told Fox News. "Maybe there's something that needs to be done in regard to the trial or the ability to release [detainees] ... but not here...
...symbol of injustice," says Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. "If you [open] a similar facility in the U.S., that doesn't solve any of the problems that closing Guantánamo was meant to solve." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...