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		Detention is a critical part of the juvenile justice continuum, and detention services often fall within the jurisdiction of the judicial branch.
		In situations concerning the liability of detention staff, courts often are asked to determine whether staff behavior was reasonable under the circumstances and whether the employee was undertaking an activity included in his or her job duties.
		Detention administrators should communicate periodically with the juvenile judge and other practioners in the juvenile justice system to minimize disagreement and conflicts that may arise over the appropriate use of detention.
	www.ncjrs.gov /txtfiles/desktop.txt (18081 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Justice Dept. Report Faults Post-9/11 Detention Practice
		The investigation focused primarily on the fate of detainees held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and the Passaic (N.J.) County Jail, and it was triggered by reports of widespread civil rights violations at both facilities.
		At the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal facility run by the Bureau of Prisons, 84 detainees were subjected to "unduly harsh" conditions, including constantly illuminated cells that made it difficult to sleep, according to the oversight report.
		However, the report said Metropolitan Detention Center officials destroyed videotapes that might have provided that evidence and were continuing to investigate for possible administrative sanctions.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3656-2003Jun2?language=printer (314 words)

	United States
		At some jails and detention centers, there are staff members who speak a language other than English and may serve as ad-hoc translators, but they may not be available to detainees when they need their help.
		They were held at the INS Detention Center in Denver, where the older brother was placed in solitary confinement for eight or nine days without being told why while the younger one was held with the general population, according to their attorney.
		Regarding religious practices, the Detention Standards state: "Detainees shall have the opportunity to engage in practices of their religious faith that are deemed essential by the faith's judicatory, consistent with the safety, security, and the orderly operation of the facility.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2002/us911/USA0802-06.htm (13391 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Feds say valley in need of detention center
		There are 12 Metropolitan Detention Center nationwide, and the growing numbers of federal prisoners in Nevada point to the need for such a facility in Las Vegas, said Fidencio Rivera, acting U.S. marshal for Nevada.
		The county's detention center along with the jails in Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas and Mesquite total about 5,100 beds, and at least 4,500 are filled on a daily basis, Martin said.
		In lieu of federal dollars for a federal detention center, law enforcement agencies say they are working together to maximize the beds they do have.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/apr/06/518560944.html (1365 words)

	Special Report
		The OIG supplemental report, issued on December 18, 2003, examined allegations that some correctional officers in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, physically and verbally abused aliens who were detained on immigration charges and held in connection with the investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
		MDC staff members advised us that officer logs, visitor logs, and restrictions on access to the unit were in place for the ADMAX SHU, but the videotapes showed that the procedures were not followed.
		The OIG investigation demonstrated that the lack of a policy on videotaping detainees upon arrival at the MDC was a contributing factor to the abuse that occurred.
	www.usdoj.gov /oig/special/0312/response.htm (5890 words)

	U.S. Court Overturns Some 100 Death Sentences
		The Metropolitan Detention Center, which opened in December 2002, has exceeded capacity numerous times during the past six months, jail officials said.
		At the old Bernalillo County Detention Center on Fourth Street and Roma Boulevard Northwest, the population exceeded the 586-inmate capacity so excessively that a civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of inmates.
		The Metropolitan Detention Center, touted as a solution to overcrowding, opened in December 2002.
	www.cjcj.org /press/new_jail.html (926 words)

	Held in 9/11 Net, Muslims Return to Accuse U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The detainees' lawyers say that what happened at the Brooklyn detention center can be recognized four years later as the template for many of the counterterrorism measures now being fiercely challenged.
		Illegal recording of lawyer-client conversations was one of the abuses documented at the Brooklyn detention center in a scathing 2003 report by the Justice Department's inspector general.
		To prevent unnecessary detentions and abuses of noncitizens in the event of a new national emergency, the Justice Department's inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, in 2003 recommended changes in counterterrorism policy as well as disciplinary action against at least 10 guards and supervisors.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article11651.htm (1711 words)

	Top-Secret Prisoners In The USA
		During his six months at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, Anser Mehmood spent 123 days in a supermax lockdown facility, where guards slammed his face into a wall and threatened to kill him.
		Her response to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn denying access to Amnesty and several other groups was tempered acceptance.
		MDC inmates organized a hunger strike to protest the new round of harassment.
	www.rense.com /general26/topsecretprisoners.htm (1921 words)

	AlterNet: Top-Secret Prisoners in the USA
		However, a March Amnesty report -- based on visits to Hudson and Passaic county jails in New Jersey and interviews with witnesses of INS detention centers in 26 states -- depicts a pattern of abuse that belies the basic principles of justice.
		Rachel Ward, the co-author of the Amnesty report was slightly more delicate in renouncing the detention centers.
		The civil rights suit, brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges Muslim detainees have been subjected to "unreasonable and excessively harsh conditions." The international press reported in April that immigration lawyers anticipate approximately 100 detainees (and former detainees) will file similar allegations.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13285 (2074 words)

	The Albuquerque Tribune: Local
		By the end of the year, the department expects to start using a new arrestee drop-off center in the city that will spare officers the two-hour round trip to the jail.
		Paul Romero, director of the relay center project, said the corrections officers' union has been awarded the approximately $3 million, three-year bid for running the center and a set of buses stationed at the Valley substation on Second Street near Monta?o Northwest.
		That was the motive behind a transport center installed in June 2003 after construction on the Metropolitan Detention Center had been completed.
	www.abqtrib.com /albq/nw_local/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19858_4266371,00.html (591 words)

	Domestic Abuse
		MDC officials told the Inspector General that these tapes had been reused and that the footage of the special interest detainees being transported within the facility no longer existed.
		Another parallel between the MDC detentions and the Abu Ghraib detentions is that in both cases the rule of law was suspended.
		The MDC detentions illustrate the danger that allowing the executive branch the broad power to define rules for detention and execute them without oversight by Congress or the courts.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2004/06/06_401.html (2171 words)

	Detainees Offer Glimpse of Life In N.Y. Facility
		The conditions were described by three detainees recently released from the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) who offered a rare glimpse of life inside the federal prison's maximum security unit, supposedly reserved for some of the most important suspects in the government's terrorism investigation.
		One U.S. official noted that two years ago at another federal facility, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, an alleged associate of Osama bin Laden stabbed a guard in the eye with a sharpened comb, leaving the victim in a coma.
		On April 4, he was transferred from MDC to Passaic County Jail to await deportation after a judge sentenced him to time served for overstaying his visa and purchasing a fake Social Security card that he used to gain employment.
	www.refuseandresist.org /newrepression/042002mdc.html (1340 words)

	KOBTV.com - Man, recently released from jail, found dead a few miles away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bernalillo County authorities say a man’s body was found just a few miles from the Metropolitan Detention Center, and Eyewitness News 4 has learned the man had just been released from jail.
		An investigator says the man was released from the Metropolitan Detention Center two or three days before his body was found.
		The director of the jail says their release policy is that, unless they have a ride, the jail transports people when they are released to the old Bernalillo County Detention Center.
	www.kobtv.com /index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=8967&cat=NMTOPSTORIES (230 words)

	9/11 conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Engineers from the firm Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson said in 1993 the World Trade Center was designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 crash, because they knew a smaller plane had crashed into the Empire State Building.
		A kink or crimp near the center of the building is identical in appearance to many that have occurred when implosion professionals have made buildings collapse inwards to minimize damage of the surrounding structures.
		Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, the five Israelis who were kept in custody in the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park for approximately two months were eventually deported back to Israel on November 20-21, 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories (8776 words)

	t r u t h o u t - ISSUES - Amnesty International \| USA: Post 11 September Detainees Deprived of Their Basic Rights
		Six months on from the 11 September attacks, a significant number of people detained in the USA in their aftermath continue to be deprived of some basic rights under international law, and many appear to have been detained arbitrarily, Amnesty International said today.
		Detainees in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in New York are made to wear full shackles when appearing before immigration judges (during hearings which take place within the facility) - in direct contravention of international standards.
		Amnesty International is also calling for a full inquiry into conditions in the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in New York, where some 40 detainees (many held for routine visa violations) are reported to be confined to sealed, usually solitary cells for 23 hours or more a day and subjected to other deprivations.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/03.16C.Deprived.Rights.htm (799 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Hundreds of videotapes weren't turned over in ...
		Some tapes from the Metropolitan Detention Center contain conversations between lawyers and their clients, IG Glenn Fine said in a report to Congress.
		Fine is looking into the detention center's failure to produce the tapes during his investigation.
		Lawyers for the Legal Aid Society are suing detention center officers for secretly videotaping their conversations at the center.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20050815-1646-patriotact-abuse.html (366 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib: Detainees in Post 9/11 Sweep Allege Abuse in New York Detention Center
		Nancy Chang, attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing plaintiffs who claim they were abused and held unconstitutionally at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in the case Turkmen v.
		It used, as a pretext, their immigration violations to hold them in detention and sidestepped all the protections that are in place for criminal detainees, which include an arraignment, probable cause hearings, and the like, right to counsel.
		And by sidestepping this and holding them in immigration detention and then changing to unpublished rules, the immigration individuals were held for as long as eight months and, in some cases, even longer than that.
	democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/03/01/1520252&mode=thread&tid=25 (2666 words)

	americas.org - Detainee Dies in Custody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On October 22, guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles found 69-year old detainee Moises Murillo unconscious in his cell; he had apparently suffered a heart attack.
		Murillo was taken to White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles, where he remained on life support until October 25, when doctors consulted with the U.S. Marshals Service and decided to turn off the machines.
		A few hours after Murillo was declared dead, authorities finally called his wife, Catalina Murillo, who had been looking for her husband since October 24, when she arrived at MDC for her weekly visit and “was told he wasn’t there,” said daughter Ruby Murillo.
	www.americas.org /item_16771 (260 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Detentions Mount Amid Official Silence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A coalition of South Asian, labor, anti-war and feminist activists at the Sept. 7 solidarity protest near the Brooklyn, N.Y. Metropolitan Detention Center.
		For over five months, he was kept incommunicado under the glare of bright lights and the unblinking eye of video surveillance for at least 23 hours a day — maximum security measures befitting a felon convicted of a violent crime, rather than a man in documentation limbo.
		In December, the Center for National Security Studies, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and 19 other civil rights groups filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the release of the identities of those arrested or detained in connection to the Sept. 11 investigation.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_09_27/feature.html (2579 words)

	Diplomats Protest Lack of Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Diplomats in New York whose job it is to monitor the welfare of their citizens here say that as detentions of foreigners for investigations into terrorism drag on into the fourth month, they are frustrated by the dearth of information available to them on many cases and concerned by reports of mistreatment of some detainees.
		Hundreds of people are in custody in the New York region, most of them at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the Manhattan Correctional Center, the Hudson County Correctional Center in Newark or the Passaic County jail, diplomats say.
		One European diplomat said he was surprised on a consular visit to see a detainee from his country brought out in chains and forced to sit behind bulletproof glass at the Metropolitan Detention Center, although the man had not been charged with a criminal offense.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1766 (984 words)

	Just a Bump in the Beltway: Torture at Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some prisoners held at Brooklyn's federal Metropolitan Detention Center say they were abused by guards.
		On the ninth floor of the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, terrorism suspects swept off the streets after the Sept. 11 attacks were repeatedly stripped naked and frequently were physically abused, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
		But Inspector General Glenn Fine, whose staff reviewed 380 MDC videotapes, reported in 2003 that "These tapes substantiated many of the detainees' allegations." Furthermore, the officers were not just a few bad apples but "a significant percentage of those who had regular contact with the detainees," Fine wrote last March.
	www.node707.com /archives/003215.shtml (845 words)

	Green Party of New York State » Blog Archive » 9/11 Detainees Abused in NYC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The former warden of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where the Justice Department and a new lawsuit say Muslim detainees were physically abused after Sept. 11, 2001, said yesterday that there had been no organized effort to mistreat the detainees or to “soften up” those being questioned by federal investigators.
		He described the change that swept the detention center as 84 detainees designated “of high interest” by the F.B.I. were brought in after the terrorist attacks.
		Hasty, who had previously been the warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan, where the 1993 World Trade Center bombers were held, said he ran his detention centers by the book.
	www.gpnys.org /?p=77 (1037 words)

	Law Library Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Because the Metropolitan Detention Center already has two days a week set aside for inmates who are granted extra library time, the administrative costs associated with this Order will essentially be zero.
		I am informed and believe that the phrase "imminent court deadline" is narrowly interpreted by the Metropolitan Detention Center essentially referring only to the trial date.
		I am aware of at least four recent cases of individuals detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center who were both represented by counsel and have been granted extra law library time by court order.
	www.freekevin.com /lib-6.htm (554 words)

	The Albuquerque Tribune: Local
		That was one Metropolitan Detention Center inmate's response recently when found with two rocks of crack cocaine in his pocket as he was being booked into the jail.
		The problem of drugs in the Metropolitan Detention Center is out of control, corrections and law enforcement officers say.
		Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White says the Metropolitan Detention Center is the monthly top address for service calls.
	www.abqtrib.com /albq/nw_local/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19858_4748349,00.html (1880 words)

	CSIndy: Imprisoned in the USA (July 3, 2002)
		Mehmood's is one of hundreds of stories that have prompted concern in the international human rights community about the precipitous roundup of 1,200 Muslim and Arab immigrants after the Sept. 11 attacks.
		However, a March Amnesty report -- based on visits to Hudson and Passaic county jails in New Jersey and interviews with witnesses of Immigration and Naturalization Service detention centers in 26 states -- depicts a pattern of abuse that belies the basic principles of justice.
		She looks down on the pit every day and she has the same concerns as other Americans, but as the weeks turn into months she does not believe the INS detainees are actually being investigated.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2002-07-03/cover.html (2238 words)

	Prisoner Rape in the News - The Prisoner- Abuse Scandal at Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Maddy's ordeal took place at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where 84 of the 762 Muslim immigrants who were detained after Sept. 11 were held.
		As the reports document, prisoners being held at MDC in connection with Sept. 11 were regularly stripped and sexually humiliated.
		Almost all the 9/11 prisoners at MDC were being held for interrogation, not because police had any evidence connecting them to terrorism.
	www.spr.org /en/news/2004/0519.html (2664 words)

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