Stories by Willam Fisher
William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia for the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Posted on Jul 6, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
Private prisons are marked by corruption, expense, abuses--and yet their reach is vast, and it's growing.
Posted on Nov 29, 2010, Source: IPS News
DHS's announcement in 2009 came on the heels of two government reports that had concluded that the U.S. immigration system was inappropriately modeled on correctional systems.
Posted on Nov 4, 2010, Source: TruthOut.org
Data provided by ICE shows that contrary to their goals, people targeted by the Secure Communities program have minor criminal convictions or have no criminal convictions.
Posted on Jun 2, 2010, Source: IPS News
Omar Khadr, who has spent his entire adult life at Guantanamo, was threatened with rape by U.S. interrogators upon his capture more than seven years ago.
Posted on May 18, 2010, Source: IPS News
"We are wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives. We need to fix the system."
Posted on Apr 23, 2010, Source: IPS News
Over 30 privacy and civil liberties organizations have filed a formal petition with the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted on Apr 13, 2010, Source: IPS News
After nine years in captivity, including physical and psychological torture, Mohamedou Ould Salahi has been ordered released by Federal District Judge James Robertson.
Posted on Mar 20, 2010, Source: IPS News
The families are asking a federal court to hold the U.S. government accountable for their sons' torture, arbitrary detention, and ultimate deaths.
Posted on Jan 22, 2010, Source: IPS News
An explosive new article reveals that three Gitmo prisoners whose deaths were labeled suicides were murdered. Obama's Department of Justice has refused to investigate.
Posted on Jan 5, 2010, Source: IPS News
Legal experts and human rights advocates are pushing back against calls from politicians to halt the planned release of prisoners from Guantanamo to their home country.
Posted on Nov 24, 2009, Source: IPS News
Three contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009, Source: IPS News
At the same time, the Justice Department is being strongly criticized for keeping the military commissions in place to try some suspects.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: IPS News
A federal appeals court has ruled that Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of Abdullah Al-Kidd.
Posted on Sep 2, 2009, Source: IPS News
The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America this week added another lawsuit to the thousands pending against him.
Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: IPS News
Calling the case "an outrage," U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle urged the lawyers to "let him out. Send him back to Afghanistan."
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: IPS News
Civil rights groups are calling on President Obama to "address systemic problems" with the government's treatment of Muslim charities.
Posted on May 14, 2009, Source: IPS News
Two factors reportedly led to Obama's U-turn: objections from military brass and the president's upcoming speech in Egypt.
Posted on Apr 20, 2009, Source: IPS News
Spanish law gives its courts jurisdiction beyond borders in cases of torture, based on a doctrine known as universal justice.
Posted on Apr 20, 2009, Source: IPS News
A federal court has ruled that four men who were tortured and released without charge can sue CACI, the U.S. contractor hired to do interrogations.
Posted on Apr 15, 2009, Source: IPS News
The Pentagon is offering $39,407 to $130,211 a year for lawyers to respond to habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees in federal courts.
Posted on Mar 25, 2009, Source: IPS News
As a condition for his release, the U.S. government told Binyam Mohamed to plead guilty, deny torture, and not to talk to media.
Posted on Mar 18, 2009, Source: IPS News
Many human rights advocates see the shift as a case of old wine in new bottles.
Posted on Mar 4, 2009, Source: IPS News
Witnesses' ranged from calling a commission a "profoundly bad idea" to "critically important."
Posted on Feb 4, 2009, Source: IPS News
The Supreme Court is poised to hear what could be one of the most consequential cases in U.S. history.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008, Source: IPS News
Under the agreement approved by the Iraqi government last week, U.S. contractors will be subject to Iraqi law for the first time.
Posted on Sep 16, 2008, Source: IPS News
According to a new study, the Bush administration has spent almost $200 on keeping secrets to every dollar allocated to open them.
Posted on Sep 6, 2008, Source: IPS News
If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the year.
Posted on Aug 18, 2008, Source: IPS News
Among the defendants in the lawsuit by extraordinary rendition Maher Arar are John Ashcroft, Tom Ridge, and Robert Mueller.
Posted on Dec 6, 2005, Source: TomPaine.com
The Iraq news payola scandal reinforces how the United States is exporting hypocrisy -- not democracy.
