The further education of Willow Kinloch
Thursday, 19 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskipolice, prison | 4 Comments »
From the Edmonton Sun: Police appeal $60,000 court award to Victoria teen tied to jail cell door VICTORIA — Victoria police are appealing a court decision awarding $60,000 to a Victoria teen who spent four hours tied up in a padded cell ...
Guantánamo: Beyond the law
Monday, 16 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskiprison, torture, war | 2 Comments »
A little something for the "they hate us for our freedom" file. But never you mind, these are just "a few bad apples" and "isolated incidents". There's no pattern here whatsoever. And no, of course these "enhanced interrogation techniques" will ...
Military Commissions Act partially overturned
Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskipolice, prison, war | 1 Comment »
No sooner do I complete writing a post mentioning one of the most odious pieces of legislation ever devised in the "land of the free" that a faint ray of hope comes through: From the New York Times: Justices Rule Terror Suspects ...
42 days: UK accelerates slide into police state
Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskipolice, politics, prison, surveillance | 3 Comments »
It is a principle of English common law that if the State is to arrest someone, it must charge them with a crime in relatively short order, or release them. It is known as the habeas corpus doctrine, and has ...
Ahoy! America’s secret prisons at sea
Tuesday, 3 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskiprison, torture, war | No Comments »
From The Guardian: US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal ...
27,000 in secret American prisons overseas
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskiprison | No Comments »
From Democracy Now!: CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH: Well you know, one thing that my charity, Reprieve, out of London, we’ve been trying to do is track down the real ghost prisoners in this process. And if you look at Guantanamo Bay, 270, ...
Victoria, BC citizenry to pay $60,000 to brutalized teen
Friday, 16 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskipolice, prison, surveillance | 6 Comments »
Willow Kinloch, then aged 15, got picked up three years ago by the Victoria police for the victimless crime of being drunk in public. For her own protection, or something. Somehow unable to manage taking an intoxicated, frightened young woman back ...
Cute torture souvenirs – Kisses from Guantanamo Bay
Wednesday, 7 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskiprison, torture | No Comments »
While we perhaps should no longer by shocked by the horrors at the US Guantánamo Bay prison, currently home to 280 "enemy combatants" and premiere American torture research center, it seems that the depravity of this hell on earth just ...
Institutional psychiatry horror, Texas-style
Tuesday, 6 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskiprison | No Comments »
The Rad Geek, from whom I acquired the "nostate.com" domain name (thank you!!!) today has a very insightful piece on the abuses of institutional psychiatry in what he aptly terms "Texas Psychoprisons". The abuses that go on at these facilities are ...
