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The enormous US prison population, the world's largest, partly reflects harsh sentencing practices contrary to international law, such as disproportionately long prison terms and mandatory sentencing without parole. Those behind bars include a growing number of elderly people, whom prisons are ill-equipped to handle, and youth under age 18 held in adult prisons. Unauthorized immigrants and their families in the United States are vulnerable to abuses stemming from an outdated, ineffective immigration system that deprives them of basic rights, and increasing numbers are held in detention facilities. A number of abusive counterterrorism policies have continued under President Barack Obama, including detentions without charge at Guantanamo Bay.
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A photograph of Ethan A. (pseudonym) held by his mother, showing her son at age 11, four months before he was arrested for committing a sex offense and placed on the sex offender registry in Texas.© 2013 Private
Reports
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The Irreparable Harm of Placing Children on Sex Offender Registries in the US
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Abusive Impacts of Arkansas's Draconian Evictions Law
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Events of 2012
United States
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May 1, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Re: Letter of Support from Human Rights Watch for Bill: AB 336 (Condoms as Evidence in Prostitution)Apr 22, 2013
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