Channel 4 News
| Feb 28, 2013
Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of leaking thousands of secret documents to the WikiLeaks website, has pleaded guilty to some of the lesser charges he faces at a military hearing in Washington DC. Washington Correspondent Matt Frei r...
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Journeyman Pictures
| Mar 20, 2013
In a painstaking investigation, this report amassed compelling evidence to finally uncover the identity of Prisoner X, sending shock-waves around the world when it broke the story. A unique insight to the case. In early 2010 a man was escorted to...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 13, 2013
Under media pressure, Israel has admitted that it secretly imprisoned an Australian dual citizen known as "Prisoner X" who killed himself in his cell in 2010 -- and Australia has admitted it knew about him. Reports have identified the man as Ben Z...
Euronews
| Dec 12, 2012
The European Union's annual Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought went to a pair of detained Iranian human rights activists. Empty chairs represented lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and film-maker Jafar Panahi at the prize ceremony, where leaders praised t...
Russia Today
| Nov 29, 2012
A military judge has approved the verbiage of Private First Class Bradley Manning's appeal where he would plead guilty to some charges of sharing sensitive information to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The judge has yet to approve the deal,...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 31, 2012
Disturbing videos of a mentally ill teenager pleading with prison guards as she is tied up with duct tape and forcibly injected with sedatives have surfaced in Canada's probe into the suicide of 19-year-old Ashley Smith. After her arrest at age 15...
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Spectacle
| Sep 10, 2012
Shaker Aamer has been held in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He's a legal UK resident, married to a British national, with four children. He's also yet to face trial or be charged. So why is he still behind bars? Through conversations with activists ...
— Dec 2, 2012 at 05:00 am
...out-of-school suspension or an alternative school placement would be better options. Solitary confinement in detention rooms in our community’s ...
— Jul 12, 2012 at 06:03 pm
...some 80,000 prisoners in solitary, the United States leads the world in isolating its citizens as well as incarcerating them. Though growing loc...
— Jul 14, 2012 at 03:47 pm
...that reducing the population in solitary confinement — or isolation, as it is often euphemistically called — can result in considerable cost sav...