We’ll be in court again tomorrow, this time in our Aref v. Holder case, a due process challenge to the federal Communications Management Units (CMUs). Prisoners in CMUs are barred from any physical contact during their limited social visits, and have severe limitations on phone calls as well as work and educational opportunities. The criteria for being sent to a CMU are opaque and prisoners have no meaningful procedural protections related to their designation, no chance to review allegations that led to their isolated treatment and no meaningful review process that would allow them to get out of the CMU. The one thing that is crystal clear in CMU policy is who is targeted: while 6 percent of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prison population is Muslim, 60 percent of those who have been held in CMUs are Muslim. Many of the remaining prisoners have unpopular political views, including environmental activists designated as “ecoterrorists.” Although the case’s discovery phase was completed earlier this year, and we are awaiting the judge’s decision in our motion for summary judgment, we will be in federal district court in DC on Thursday asking the judge to compel BOP to turn over relevant documents that BOP only revealed they had at the 11th hour as we were already finalizing our summary judgment brief. The documents in question are policy documents that could prove critical to our case. For more information, see our case page: https://ccrjustice.org/CMU
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:00:02 +0000
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