MetaFilter posts tagged with prison and children

Life without parole: Child prisoners in the US

flibbertigibbet — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:46:50 -0800

"In the US, there are 2,270 prisoners [report, news release, with testimonies] who were sentenced as children to life without parole. They will die behind bars. Ed Pilkington asks five of them - from a 21-year-old to a 70-year-old - how do they cope?" Related: as of 2005, executions of prisoners for crimes committed as children is no longer permissible in the United States.

the children of Guantanamo

j.p. Hung — Sun, 28 May 2006 06:36:04 -0800

Newsfilter: the Children of Guantanamo The 'IoS' reveals today that more than 60 of the detainees of the US camp were under 18 at the time of their capture, some as young as 14

Who, exactly, are the terrorists?

dejah420 — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:18:49 -0800

Iraqi women beg to be killed as American soldiers sodomize their children (link is an .rm file, the bit about mothers and children starts about 1:31), according to journalist Seymour Hersh who reports seeing unreleased footage from Abu Ghraib. The question remains unanswered as to why he'll talk about it in a speech, but not publish it in the New Yorker. It's also worth asking, if these allegations are true, who else has seen this footage and why is it not being reported?

Children at Camp X-Ray

Blue Stone — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:03:48 -0800

Children are being held at Camp X-Ray admits the US, as reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

tranquileye — Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:15:29 -0800

Teenager jailed for his 'imagination.' A 15 year-old boy is beaten repeatedly by school bullies. His parents complain about it, but no one does anything. He writes a short story describing a bullied boy blowing up his school. Rumours swirl. Police raid his house but find no weapons or bomb-making stuff. Regardless, the boy is charged with "uttering a death threat." Today he was found guilty and sentenced to thirty days in jail.