http://www.mail.com/subjects/54696-military-correctional-systems.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/54696-military-correctional-systems.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2030466-long-period-quiet-guantanamo-grows-tense.html GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The morning routine started before dawn with a prisoner chanting the Muslim call to prayer through a small opening in the heavy steel door of his cell as soldiers with face shields quietly paced in the dimly lit corridor. The calm did not last long. Within minutes, troops began rushing about, the words "code yellow" ... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:35:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2030466-long-period-quiet-guantanamo-grows-tense.html 2013-04-19T14:35:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022174-alaska-based-soldier-16-years-spy-case.html JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska-based military policeman will serve 16 years in prison and will be dishonorably discharged for selling secrets to an FBI undercover agent who he believed was a Russian spy, a panel of eight military members has decided. Spec. William Colton Millay, of Owensboro, Ky., pleaded guilty last month to att... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:40:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022174-alaska-based-soldier-16-years-spy-case.html 2013-04-16T11:40:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2017744-prisoners-guards-clash-guantanamo-bay-raid.html MIAMI (AP) — Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees Saturday as the military closed a communal section of the facility and moved its inmates into single cells. The violence erupted during an early morning raid that military officials said was necessary because prisoners had covered up... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:28:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2017744-prisoners-guards-clash-guantanamo-bay-raid.html 2013-04-14T01:28:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2013528-hagel-favors-closing-military-prison-guantanamo.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he backs President Barack Obama's call to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama announced within days of his inauguration in January 2009 that he wanted to shutter the facility that houses terror suspects, but Republicans and some Democrats in Congress have resisted. They've argued th... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:18:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2013528-hagel-favors-closing-military-prison-guantanamo.html 2013-04-11T16:18:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2006334-us-naming-force-fed-guantanamo-prisoners.html MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government has begun notifying lawyers of Guantanamo Bay prisoners if the men they represent are being force-fed to prevent them from starving to death in a hunger strike that has dragged on for more than two months, though its extent remains in dispute. Cori Crider, a lawyer for Yemeni prisoner Samir Mukbel, said she received notifi... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:35:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2006334-us-naming-force-fed-guantanamo-prisoners.html 2013-04-08T21:35:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1990476-yemenis-demand-release-guantanamo-detainees.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Activists and relatives of around 90 Yemeni detainees held in Guantanamo Bay protested outside the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa on Monday to demand the prisoners' release after more than a decade in detention. Yemenis make up the largest contingent of the 166 detainees held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Most were detained in Afghanistan fol... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:13:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1990476-yemenis-demand-release-guantanamo-detainees.html 2013-04-01T14:13:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1978410-us-military-guantanamo-hunger-strike-edges-up.html MIAMI (AP) — More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, as defense lawyers expressed alarm about one of the most sustained protests at the base in several years. There are 28 prisoners on hunger strike, up from 21 a week earlier, including three who were hospitalized for dehydration fro... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:44:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1978410-us-military-guantanamo-hunger-strike-edges-up.html 2013-03-25T20:44:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1962402-us-hunger-strike-grows-to-21-guantanamo.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison has grown and now involves at least 21 men, a U.S. military official said Monday while denying reports trickling out from prisoners through lawyers that there is a more widespread protest and lives are in danger. No prisoner faces any immediate health threat from the strike, though ... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:07:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1962402-us-hunger-strike-grows-to-21-guantanamo.html 2013-03-18T22:07:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1925868-gis-wikileaks-admission-energizes-supporters.html WASHINGTON (AP) — While it may be a curious legal strategy, an Army private's decision to admit in court that he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks has energized his supporters around the world. Pfc. Bradley Manning, 25, has been called by some a whistleblowing hero, a political prisoner and a symbol of the misplaced prioritie... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1925868-gis-wikileaks-admission-energizes-supporters.html 2013-03-02T00:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1905454-palestinian-protesters-clash-with-israeli-troops.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli security forces Thursday, hurling rocks and burning tires at a West Bank demonstration to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Palestinians have staged protests across the West Bank all week in solidarity with the 4,500 prisoners held by Israel. Four o... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:42:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1905454-palestinian-protesters-clash-with-israeli-troops.html 2013-02-21T16:42:22Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1881258-obama-wielding-executive-power-2nd-term.html WASHINGTON (AP) — This is what "Forward" looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and agency rule-making that touch many of the affairs of government. They are shaping the cost and quality of health plans, the contents of the school cafeteria, the front lines of future... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1881258-obama-wielding-executive-power-2nd-term.html 2013-02-11T08:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1781374-coalition-soldier-missing-afghanistan.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A search is under way in southern Afghanistan for a soldier from the NATO-led coalition, believed to be the first to have gone missing since a U.S. Army sergeant was captured by the Taliban more than three years ago, a military spokesman said Friday. U.S. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton said the soldier was among the 1,560 troops from ... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1781374-coalition-soldier-missing-afghanistan.html 2012-12-21T13:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1749718-marine-brig-officials-grilled-gis-jailing.html FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a psychiatrist determined that wasn't necessary, as lawyers for the soldier at the center of the WikiLeaks case chipped away at inconsistencies in the military's rationale for how it jailed Manning. ... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1749718-marine-brig-officials-grilled-gis-jailing.html 2012-12-06T23:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1746342-marine-official-manning-held-improperly-brig.html FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines' chief of corrections testified Wednesday. Chief Warrant Officer 5 Abel Galaviz als... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1746342-marine-official-manning-held-improperly-brig.html 2012-12-06T01:58:00Z