Prison's Dilemma

Prison's Dilemma
Re "Why Gitmo Will Never Close" [June 10]: Guantánamo must surely rate as one of the greatest state-sponsored miscarriages of justice of recent times. Michael Crowley glosses over the reality of the fact that many of Guantánamo's inmates should not be there in the first place. An undisclosed number were boys as young as 14 and men who were handed over for bounty money by Pakistani officials to U.S. authorities in Afghanistan simply because they were neither Afghans nor Pakistanis.
James Livingston,
Whitianga, New Zealand For every prisoner in detention there are most...

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