DaaaihLoong writes: "You're in the Hole

A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners

by Anne-Marie Cusac

On October 31, the Department of Justice published new rules,
"effective
upon publication," that "impose special administrative measures with
respect
to specified inmates." The document, entitled "National Security:
Prevention
of Acts of Violence and Terrorism," was signed by Attorney General John
Ashcroft on October 26 and published in the Federal Register.

The rules also characterize the attorney
"as
disseminating information for a prisoner who's been deemed a national
security threat."

Several political prisoners, including Marilyn Buck, Sundiata Acolia, Philip Berrigan and Carlos Torres, have already been placed in segregation and held incommunicado under these new regulations.

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