(TM) — An Istanbul court sentenced 75-year-old Ali Şahin, who was accused of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to read and summarize 24 books, including an Erdogan biography, the Oda TV news website reported on Sunday. Şahin was investigated by an İstanbul prosecutor for allegedly insulting Erdogan in a coffeehouse, a charge he denied and […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) While President Trump is still trying to sort out exactly how to word his executive order, but the plan is clearly to expand the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and start throwing more detainees into the facility. The Pentagon’s planning ahead on picking up spending at the site.
(ANTIWAR.COM) While President Trump has made clear he intends to not only keep Guantanamo Bay open, but refill it with a new round of detainees, the administration has been struggling with the legal obstacles surrounding a new influx of captives.
(ANTIWAR.COM) Trump Administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, are suggesting that President Trump’s campaign promise to start refilling the detention center at Guantanamo Bay could begin soon, with Sessions praising it as a “very fine place” for detainees and insisting that there is no legal reason not to start sending new
(ANTIMEDIA) California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown allocated a record $11.4 billion to the state’s corrections department in his May Revision to the budget, translating to $75,560 per individual — the highest per-inmate cost in the nation.
Media outlets ran amok with headlines comparing the costs of imprisonment to tuition at the country’s premier private university.
(ANTIMEDIA) Chicago, IL — The Chicago Sun-Times has discovered a makeshift strip club that often conducts its shows on the top floor of a parking garage across the street from Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. According to the Sun-Times, the shows are arranged by the inmates to demonstrate their status as “top dogs” in the jail.
(ANTIMEDIA) Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been vocal about his archaic opposition to cannabis.
(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — In a move that advances the Trump administration’s push to establish mandatory minimum sentencing practices nationwide, last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would require courts to send teens convicted of sexting to federal prison for 15 years.
