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The CIA Accused of Third Torture Prison in Europe - This Time in Lithuania
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CIA chief Leon Panetta orders closure of secret rendition sites.
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The United Nations anti-torture committee has demanded access to an Israeli secret prison where torture is allegedly being practiced.
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US Senate OKs block of prisoner abuse photos.
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US general Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez linked to Abu Ghraib abuse.
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In a collection of hundreds of so-far-unreleased photographs and short digital videos obtained by The Washington Post, U.S. soldiers are shown physically and emotionally abusing detainees last fall in the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad
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Obama Moves to Bar Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
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The identity of men on CIA rendition flights to British island have been revealed.
9
United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations.
10
Guilty Of Being Poor: Welcome to the debtors’ prisons of the 21st century.
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Prison Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations With a Quarter of the World’s Prisoners.
12
Unredacted documents reveal prisoners in in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay were tortured to death.
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Sex used to break Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
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In 2008, there were 125 journalists behind bars, with 45 percent being bloggers.
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An Iraq Interrogators Report: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq.
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Vice President Dick Cheney owns about $85 million invested in the Vanguard Group, which owns shares in the three top prison companies in America, Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group and Cornell
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Lord Black, serving a 6 1/2-year sentence for defrauding millions from his former media empire: “The U.S. is now a carceral state that imprisons eight to 12 times more people per capita than the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany or Japan."
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US inmate populations in 10 states have increased by 25% or more between 2006 and 2011. Private prison companies are preparing for a wave of new business due to the economic downturn.
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Oklahoma Sheriff Faces Charges of Using Inmates as Sex Slaves.
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Federal judge orders the release of 5 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
21
Robert Fisk: Sami al-Haj, an Al Jazeera cameraman, was beaten, abused and humiliated in the name of the war on terror over a period of almost six years in Guantanamo Bay.
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The main charge against six Algerians held without trial for nearly seven years at Guantanamo has been withdrawn.
23
Polish intelligence sources have time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facility in Poland.
24
German car salesman was kidnapped in Europe, beaten and flown to a US-controlled jail in Afghanistan.
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UK MPs are to launch an investigation into US activities on Diego Garcia after accusing Washington of lying about extraordinary rendition flights from the British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean.
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