ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Secret Creation of Isolated Housing Units in Federal Prisons

U.S. Newswire, June, 2009

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Will Matthews of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1- 212-549-2582, 1-212-549-2666, media@aclu.org

Prisoners Unfairly Assigned To Draconian Units Government Claims Are For Terrorists

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Indiana today filed a legal complaint challenging the unprecedented and secret creation of housing units inside federal prisons in which prisoners are condemned to live in stark isolation from the outside world. Called Communication Management Units (CMUs) and designed to house prisoners viewed by the government as terrorists, they were established in violation of federal laws requiring public scrutiny and today are disproportionately inhabited...

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