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ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Secret Creation Of Isolated Housing Units In Federal Prisons

By ACLU

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TERRE HAUTE, IN ? The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Indiana today filed a legal complaint challenging the unprecedented and secret creation of housing units inside federal prisons in which prisoners are condemned to live in stark isolation from the outside world. Called Communication Management Units (CMUs) and designed to house prisoners viewed by the government as terrorists, they were established in violation of federal laws requiring public scrutiny and today are disproportionately inhabited by Muslim prisoners ? many of whom have never been convicted of terrorism-related crimes.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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