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The less detainees can count on the governments to follow through, the less inclined they'll be to accept such arrangements".
In Boumediene, Justice Anthony Kennedy stressed that habeas is less about detainees' rights, important as they are, than about the vital judicial power to check undue use of executive power.
The immigration minister acknowledged the centre was being used increasingly as a holding cell for high-risk offenders, such as bikie gang members, raising safety concerns for some of the less dangerous detainees sent to the facility.
Mr. Powell echoed the call for the release or transfer of less-important detainees.
most jurisdictions are required to staff medical and mental health professionals to determine when an inmate is in need of medical or mental health services (jails with less than 100 detainees are exempt).
On Thursday, Obama said he expects that by early next year there will be less than 100 detainees remaining at Guantanamo — an indication that Congress has been notified, as required by law, about additional transfers.
These aspects might be of less relevance to detainees while in detention.
ERFs (Enhanced Reaction Forces) pepper-sprayed, beat, and restrained less-than-compliant detainees.
It appears that the reason the administration refuses to allow trial or release for these detainees has less to do with the individuals themselves, than with the current global context.
Mr. Gates, who held the same post in the final years of the Bush administration, also dismissed as "fear-mongering" the assertion that Americans would be made less safe if the detainees were moved to American maximum-security prisons.
Page A14 MODEL DETENTION CENTER On a patch of Texas farmland near the Gulf of Mexico, immigration officials introduced one of the most high-profile results of the three-year-old plan to overhaul the nation's immigration detention system: a new facility intended to provide a less penal setting for detainees.
