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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

A reader recently called our attention to an long piece in the London Review of Books by Gareth Peirce, a British solicitor known for taking on high-profile–and often controversial–human rights cases. In the 1993 film In the Name of the Father, Peirce, played by Emma Thompson, is shown defending a group of Irish men wrongly […]

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Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

“Extradition to a Future of Total Isolation” Opposed by British Human Rights Lawyer

The End of Mississippi’s Notorious Supermax Unit

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

Women Prisoners in Virginia Segregated for Having Mental Illness or “Looking Butch”

Rastafarians Spend a Decade in Solitary for Refusing Haircuts

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home