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In addition, we need to be sure that white collar criminals are not merely detained in so-called "country club" federal prison facilities for relatively short prison terms.
While AILA has joined the ACLU and other organizations in a Freedom of Information Act request to find out who is being detained where and why, Mohammed notes that the reasons for the immigrants' detention were not immediately clear and sometimes had dire consequences.
Routinely, children and adults with mental disabilities are arbitrarily detained in psychiatric facilities, social care homes, orphanages and other closed institutions.
The USAT front brings word that based on phone surveillance, police in five European countries detained more than 80 Islamic militants suspected of planning to disrupt the World Cup soccer matches, scheduled to start next month in ten French cities.
Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.