Connecticut has legislation that may attach cost-of-incarceration charges to any money the women could receive themselves.
If people wore fewer than three items of clothing of their supposed gender, they were subject to arrest and incarceration on charges of "sexual deviancy".
Tymoshenko's husband, Oleksandr, spent two years (2002 2004) in hiding in order to avoid incarceration on charges the couple said were unfounded and politically motivated by the former Kuchma administration.
Jones-Wright is running a campaign pledging sweeping changes for the criminal justice system in the county, including reforming cash bail practices, establishing a DA-appointed panel to review police officer shootings, supporting alternatives to incarceration, avoiding charges for some low-level offenses and enacting restorative justice programs.
Each spent between four and six years in incarceration without charge.
Dhiab and an undisclosed cohort of detainees are on hunger strike to protest against their incarceration without charge.
A harrowing account of over a decade of incarceration without charge, by a detainee still in the Cuban prison.
Earlier methods of protecting the public from them, such as prolonged incarceration without charge and deportation to countries where they might be tortured, had been ruled unlawful.
"I am very pleased his long incarceration without charge is finally over," David Schlesinger, the editor in chief of Reuters, said in a statement.
These 501s, facing only an indefinite incarceration without charge, or forcible deportation, now outnumber asylum seekers in many immigration detention centres across Australia, including on Christmas Island.
He has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his three-year incarceration without charge in Bagram Prison and Guantánamo after 9/11, during which time he was tortured.
