United States

UNITED STATES

PRESUMPTION OF GUILT:
Human Rights Abuses of Post-September 11 Detainees
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I. Summary and Recommendations

Recommendations

Arrests

Secrecy

Access to Counsel and Protection of Legal Rights

Consular Rights

Arbitrary Detention

Conditions of Detention

Who are the Detainees?

Refusal to Release Information about Detainees

Denial of Access to Detention

Immigration Proceedings Conducted in Secrecy

Inadequate Justification for Secrecy

Protection of the Terrorism

Investigation

Privacy Concerns

IV. Denial Of Access To Counsel

Custodial Interrogations without

Access to Counsel

Abusive Interrogations

Access to Counsel for INS Detainees

V. Violation Of Consular Rights

VI. Arbitrary Detention

Detaining Non-Citizens without Charge

Widespread Delays in Filing Charges

Delay in Access to Courts

Detainees Denied Release on Bond or Held on Extraordinarily High Bond

Continued Detention Despite

Refusal to Release Detainees for whom Bonds have been Posted

Continued Detention Despite

Misuse of Material Witness Warrants

VII. Conditions of Detention

Administrative Segregation

Physical and Verbal Abuse

Inadequate Health Care

Inability to Satisfy Religious

Commingling INS Detainees with Criminal Inmates

Other Problems at Detention

Barriers to Communication with Families

Jail Handbooks

Recreation

Language Barriers

Acknowledgments