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I spent a night in a replica of a Guantánamo Bay prison cell last week , time during which I reflected on the perilous status of the men held at the offshore prison even the president says he wants to close. They are held in legal limbo, not charged with...
Today is a big day in the nation's human-rights history. Five "detainees" captured and held for their alleged roles in terrorism and other acts against the United States who are being imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay are facing a US military...
Well, we knew that. But here's an edited transcript of a talk Phoenix freelancer Lance Tapley gave last week at the Meg Perry Center, home to Peace Action Maine and the Foglight Collective . By the way, you can hear this talk online at ThinkTwiceRadio...
Tonight, at 7:30 pm, at the Meg Perry Center ( 644 Congress St, Portland - click for a map ) Portland Phoenix contributing writer Lance Tapley will be talking about conditions in Maine's prison system, and what can be done about the inhumane treatment...
The Portland Press Herald has taken its political criticism to a new low: Not only did a Friday editoral fail to note that the Corrections policy of moving inmates from prison to a jail is in violation of a federal court order rediscovered by the Portland...
According to this Associated Press report , the man who shot three people dead in Conway, New Hampshire, during a botched robbery attempt, was released from the Maine State Prison in May, after serving five years, during which he was denied both medication...
The Boston Globe reports today on a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of mentally ill inmates housed in solitary confinement for as long as 23 hours a day. The lawsuit alleges that prison officials are not respecting inmates' Eighth Amendment rights, which...
