Courts Write Own Rules On Detainees

Courtesy NPR: Politics & Society  Thu, 01/21/2010 - 23:00

One year after President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, 200 detainees remain there. A new study finds judges using wildly different criteria to review the cases — the result of a lack of clear guidelines on issues such as the use of coercion — and how to define an enemy combatant.

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