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NEWS ABOUT: Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth stories: 3 news summaries

 Vick Sprung From Prison 

Final 2 months of sentence will be home confinement

May 20, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(AP) - Michael Vick has left a Kansas prison and is on his way back to Virginia, where he'll be confined to his home for 2 months, one of the suspended NFL star's lawyers says. Vick left the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth overnight, ostensibly for a home he owns in Hampton. The... More »

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NFL • Atlanta Falcons • crime • Michael Vick • football • dogfighting • Fort Leavenworth

 Bush Committed 
 to Gitmo Gulag 

Come hell or Supreme Court, administration believes in controversial lock up

Oct 21, 08 3:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite his stated desire to the contrary, President Bush and his most hawkish aides are determined to keep prison facilities operating at Guantánamo Bay, reports the New York Times. Bush made up his mind following a Supreme Court ruling in the summer granting 250 detainees the right to challenge... More »

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Dick Cheney • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court • Fort Leavenworth • George W. Bush • detainees • Uighurs • Supermax • Naval Consolidated Brig

9/11 Executions Could Take Place in Gitmo

Military rules changed allowing executions far from federal courts

Feb 13, 08 7:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Six 9/11 suspects detained at Gitmo could be executed at the controversial prison compound if found guilty, legal experts say. Military regulations used to require that executions take place at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, but that rule was amended two years ago to allow prisoners to be executed in "... More »

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execution • US military • capital punishment • September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • execution chamber • Fort Leavenworth

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