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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 [1] [2] (Pub. L. 112–81 (text)) is a United States federal law which, among other things, specified the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. The bill passed the U.S. House on December 14, 2011 and passed the U.S. Senate on December 15, 2011.
The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) is an Act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 30, 2005. [1] Offered as an amendment to a supplemental defense spending bill, it contains provisions relating to treatment of persons in custody of the Department of Defense, and administration of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including: [2]
Harman was convicted of maltreatment of detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, and dereliction of duty. She was sentenced to six months in prison, forfeiture of all her pay and benefits, demoted, and given a bad conduct discharge. [1] She was imprisoned in the Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar in San Diego, California. [2]
A former California prison guard being retried in a “Code of Silence” cover up in an attack on an inmate who later died was found guilty Wednesday.
The U.S. government refers to these captured enemy combatants as "detainees" because they did not qualify as prisoners of war under the definition found in the Geneva Conventions. Under the Obama administration the term enemy combatants was also removed from the lexicon and further defined under the 2010 Defense Omnibus Bill: Section 948b.
After two trials and a tearful plea for compassion, a former Sacramento prison guard was sentenced Monday to six months in prison in a “Code of Silence” cover-up involving the death of a 65 ...
The retrial of an ex-California prison guard accused of a “Code of Silence” cover-up in the death of a 65-year-old inmate began Tuesday in Sacramento, with a prosecutor telling jurors that ...
The CSRT afforded detainees few basic protections; Many detainees lacked counsel; The CSRT also informed detainees only of general charges against them, while the details on which the CSRT premised enemy combatant status decisions were classified. Detainees had no right to present witnesses or to cross-examine government witnesses.