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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the impediments that have thwarted him thus far remain. Tweet This Post
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Federal government reviewing prison phone charges
Posted by admin on April 24th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Black Caucus pressed the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to move swiftly to cut the costs that prison inmates and their families are paying for phone calls, an issue that has been tied up with the regulatory panel for a decade. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Shut Guantanamo prison by end of 2014, U.S. group urges
Posted by admin on April 16th, 2013
By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) – The indefinite detention of prisoners at the Guantanamo detention camp is "abhorrent and intolerable" and should end by the time U.S. troops leave Afghanistan next year, an independent U.S. task force said in a report released on Tuesday. The Constitution Project's task force, which included two retired U.S. generals, [...]
Holder criticizes some states over electoral college maneuvers, calls some prison sentences too long
Posted by admin on April 6th, 2013
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No Comments »U.S., Afghanistan reach agreement on prison transfer: Pentagon
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States agreed on Saturday to transfer to Afghan control a prison that houses insurgents and other dangerous inmates adjacent to Bagram airfield, the Pentagon said. The agreement, reached after a week of intensified negotiations between U.S. and Afghan officials, calls for the formal transfer to take place on Monday and [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghanistan, Agreement, Pentagon, prison, Reach, transfer, U.S. No Comments »U.S., Afghanistan reach agreement on prison transfer: Pentagon
Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States agreed on Saturday to transfer to Afghan control a prison that houses insurgents and other dangerous inmates adjacent to Bagram airfield, the Pentagon said. The agreement, reached after a week of intensified negotiations between U.S. and Afghan officials, calls for the formal transfer to take place on Monday and [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Afghanistan, Agreement, Pentagon, prison, Reach, transfer, U.S. No Comments »Holder averts furloughs of prison staffers
Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder says he has averted daily furloughs of 3,570 federal prison staffers around the country, staving off what would have been a serious threat to the lives and safety of staff, inmates and the public. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Kilpatrick Headed Back to Prison
Posted by admin on March 11th, 2013
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) was convicted of corruption charges, “ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation’s youngest big-city leaders,” the Washington Post reports. Tweet This Post
Prospect of prison looms for ex-congressman, wife
Posted by admin on February 16th, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — The prospect of prison looms over former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife after they agreed to plead guilty to charges in an alleged scheme to spend $ 750,000 in campaign funds on personal items — including furs, a gold watch, a football signed by U.S. presidents and even a [...]
Ally of Iran’s Ahmadinejad freed from prison: official agency
Posted by admin on February 6th, 2013
DUBAI (Reuters) – A once-feared Iranian prosecutor at the center of a confrontation between two of the Islamic Republic’s most powerful figures was freed on Wednesday, state news agency IRNA said, two days after he was arrested without explanation. The former prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, was detained shortly after his political ally, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, publicly [...]
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