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...creeping czarism is also a way of exploiting the undemocratic yearning for strongmen, playing on the idea that compromise is fine when the stakes are small, but when the chips are down, only a tyrant will do. Generations of Russian dissidents braved prison, execution and revolution to rid their nation of czars. And the Founding Fathers so feared czarlike power that they fashioned a government intricately checked and balanced. Hard to imagine Madison and Mason agreeing to put the really difficult problems in the hands of unelected superstaffers...
...Europe was united during the Bush years in pushing for the closure of the controversial military prison in Guantanamo. But now that there's a president in the White House who wants to close the prison, most European countries are making themselves scarce. (See pictures inside Guantanamo...
JUNE 2006 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger convenes a special legislative session to discuss overcrowding and recidivism. He proposes a $6 billion plan to build more prison space...
...governor signs Assembly Bill 900 to "provide critical relief to prison overcrowding" by creating more room and sending some prisoners out of state...
...pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...