Author: Candice Bernd
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From Tacoma to Texas, Hunger Strikers Challenge Private Immigration Detention Centers
CONROE, Texas—Adelina Cáceres doesn’t understand why her husband, David Vásquez, who is a documented resident, remains detained at the privately run Joe Corley Detention Facility in Conroe, Texas, as a result of a prior charge he already served time for years ago. “Why do they call him a criminal?” Cáceres asked as she sobbed during…
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Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Guilty on 19 Other Counts
FORT MEADE, Md.—Pfc. Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of “aiding the enemy” by leaking hundreds of thousands of classified national security documents that implicate the United States in war crimes to WikiLeaks in a verdict announced Tuesday by Judge Col. Denise Lind at a military base in Fort Meade, Maryland. He has been…