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After jail scandal, spotlight on growing role of women officers
The 19-year-old felt sick to her stomach when she stepped into the Baltimore prison once nicknamed "Supermax" for her first day of work as a corrections officer. The place was dark and dingy, and she had never been around so many men before. When...
Tags: Prisons, Colleges and Universities, Trials, Justice System, Sexual Misconduct
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'Game of Thrones' returns, Kevin Ware's injury shocks and pogs in your Easter basket?
In case you forgot it's April Fools day, Google is there to remind you. Today's top "cold searches" will return you to the 90's with Y2K, Pogs hologram slammers, Macarena step-by-step and prom scrunchies making you want to jump jumping like a mac daddy....
Tags: Easter, Game of Thrones (tv program), Human Rights, ABC (tv network), HIV
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If not unions, then what?
You wouldn't know it from our nation's debate over Obamacare, but the U.S. has had government-supported health care for nearly 80 years. Not only that, but our nation bolsters a retirement level well beyond the thin safety net provided by Social Security,...
Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Windham (Windham, Connecticut), Human Rights, Labor Legislation
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Senate expected to back Cardin human rights measure despite White House concerns
— Legislation by Sen. Ben Cardin to pressure Russia on human rights abuses is expected to win approval in Congress Thursday despite concerns that it will hurt already tenuous U.S. relations with the Kremlin. The proposal — which requires the...
Tags: Vladimir Putin, United Nations, Georgetown, U.S. Senate, Human Rights
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Youth in city jail face 'deplorable' conditions
Before the other boys jumped Tyrone, they asked if he wanted to fight.
That was a mere formality. Fights are a regular occurrence among juveniles being held in Baltimore's adult jail — where the 16-year-old was held for six months on attempted-...Tags: Prisons, Human Rights, Justice System, Prosecution, Civil Rights
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Drone strikes: Obama is acting like Bush, with Eric Holder as his Dick Cheney
Thank you for enunciating my thoughts exactly in your editorial "Death by drone" (March 9).
I would think a vast majority of the people voted for Barack Obama as a repudiation of the disastrous Bush-Cheney administration. But President Obama, like his...Tags: Eric Holder, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney
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Baltimore writer still missing in Libya
Sharon VanDyke's phone rang Monday afternoon, but after quickly dispensing with the call, she said, sadly, "Well, it wasn't Matthew."
The wait continues for the retired principal, who has searched for the past five months for her son, a 32-year-old...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Prisons, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Libya
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Torture: Wrong then, still wrong now
The images of the burning towers on Sept. 11 are seared into our collective memory. It seemed unthinkable that we could be attacked on our native soil.
During our nation's founding, we were also attacked on our soil. And though the British who captured...Tags: Treaties, Human Rights, Justice System, Dick Cheney, George Washington
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Baltimorean taking up the Libyan rebel cause
As described by those who know him, Matthew VanDyke comes off as footloose and maybe a little feckless. He has worked sporadically, sometimes getting freelance writing or teaching gigs but more often traveling to the Middle East for months at a time...Tags: Prisons, Tripoli (Libya), Foreign Aid, Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights
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What will the U.S. response be to Syria's crimes against humanity?
The Syrian government's increasingly brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters is putting the Obama administration's revamped Middle East policy to its first real test. It's one thing to say U.S. policy toward the region should spring from America's core...Tags: Heads of State, Syria, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Libya
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Hussein's deadly sweeps took in mothers, sisters, too
Sun Foreign StaffBAGHDAD, Iraq -- The sister he has never seen is the one Ali Hussain Mohamed misses the most. He misses his other sister, too, of course, and his mother, taken away with her in the dark of night 21 years ago. "But the new sister," he explains, "I want to...Tags: Prisons, Saddam Hussein, Family, Human Rights, Civil Rights
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Bush weighs release of abuse photos
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The Bush administration faces a difficult decision about whether to publicly release hundreds of images of Iraqi prisoners being abused and sexually humiliated at the Abu Ghraib prison. Some veteran Washington analysts suggested that it's in...Tags: Heads of State, Defense, Scott McClellan, Colleges and Universities, Armed Forces
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