El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, to which U.S. deportees are being sent, is the harbinger of more to come.
Chris Hedges: American Concentration Camps
Category: Prisons
John Kiriakou: US Prisons Under Trump’s Watch
Here’s a look at the blighted prison system that Donald Trump took over from Biden, along with some new scandals that have already occurred since Trump’s inauguration.
WATCH: US Calls for Release of Australian Hostage in Iraq
The U.S. hostage envoy calls for the release an Australian engineer held hostage by Iraq’s Central Bank to get out of a debt to the hostage’s company. CN Live! talks to his wife & an Australian senator about the case.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US System of Prison Injustice
As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, here’s a look at this president’s final year in office and his criminal-justice legacy.
McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry
Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail, writes Mark Curtis.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US Prisons Still a Disaster Zone
The BOP had long been one of the biggest embarrassments in the federal government and Joe Biden’s administration hasn’t changed that.
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet & Lock Up the Dissidents
The imprisoned Roger Hallam believes that resistance is not, ultimately, about what we can or cannot achieve. It is about a “re-enchantment of the world,” he says. “It is about our spirit taking center stage.”
Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law’
UPDATED: Read all of Julian Assange’s remarks, including Q&A, in Strasbourg Tuesday morning, on the plea deal, WikiLeaks work, the Espionage Act, the C.I.A.’s retribution and more.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The CIA & the 9/11 Plea Deals – UPDATED
If you didn’t like the outcome of this odyssey through uncharted legal territory before Lloyd Austin reversed it, blame the C.I.A., Mitch McConnell and almost every other member of Congress who served in 2009 and 2015.