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U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights?and Lose the First Round

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights?and Lose the First Round July 8, 2010 by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway (Solitary Watch) For years, four British nationals have been fighting against their extradition to the United States to face various terrorism charges, arguing that such a move would place them at risk of human right violations, as defined by the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. When courts in the UK ruled against the four men, they took their cause to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Among other things, the British suspects have argued that if extradited, they could face a lifetime of solitary confinement under "special administrative measures" (SAMs), most likely at ADX Florence, the notorious federal supermax prison in Colorado...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 11, 2010 (boomark / email).