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...years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they be imprisoned out of state to avoid cellblock encounters with inmates they sent to prison in the course of their police work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

They were herded into Cellblock 1A. The guards cut off their clothes, and then the degrading demands began. Through it all, al-Abbadi knew the Americans were taking photos, he says, "because I saw the flashbulbs go off through the bag over my head." He says he is the hooded man in the picture in which a petite, dark-haired woman in camouflage pants and an Army T shirt gives a thumbs-up as she points to a prisoner's genitals. He says he was in the pileup of naked men ordered to lie on the backs of other detainees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Scandal's Growing Stain | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...dividing this potent symbol of equality from the relics of apartheid are the Great African Steps, built with 150,000 bricks from the demolished cellblock. Rarely does the phrase "out of darkness comes light" have so much resonance. constitutionhill.org.za

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long Walk to Justice | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...legal disputes. In the sunken courtroom, a ribbon of glass at street level ensures that justice is always visible to those it should protect. And dividing this potent symbol of equality from the relics of apartheid are the Great African Steps, built with 150,000 bricks from the demolished cellblock. Rarely does the phrase "out of darkness comes light" have so much resonance. constitutionhill.org.za

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long Walk To Justice | 11/23/2006 | See Source »

...knelt next to him. I heard them telling the captive, a Bahraini named Halim, that he was going to be all right. On the ground outside the shower I noticed a pool of dark red blood; the detainee had apparently cut his wrists with a razor. Sitting on the cellblock steps was a trembling National Guardsman, a kid of no more than 19, trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Witness | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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