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US border authorities released a statement Thursday disclosing that the eight-year-old girl who died while in their custody last month was denied attention or review from medical staff. Following the death of the young migrant, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched an internal investigation consistent with agency [...]

US border authorities confirmed Wednesday that an eight-year-old girl died while in their custody along the US southern border. Her death is the second reported incident of a child dying in US custody since the lifting of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that has been widely criticized by human rights groups. A statement from [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) released an executive summary of a report Thursday, which states that the prosecutors in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 federal criminal investigation did not break the law, although they did exercise poor judgment. The prosecutors involved in the 2008 investigation worked at the US Attorney’s Office (USAO) [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey F. Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law continues the discussion on the legality of waterboarding...This article is written in response to certain scholars that published their views in a recent JURIST article concerning my...

JURIST Contributing Editor Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that through the recent decision to continue two torture investigations, the country is reaching a turning point where blame will start to flow back up to...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis, an Associate Professor of Law at University of Toledo College of Law, says that the recent response by the US to the Spanish torture case outlines the Obama Administration's approach to torture... Recently, the...

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a joint expert opinion Tuesday urging a Spanish court to open an investigation into six former Bush administration...

Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay Bybee denied approving a number of interrogation techniques used by the CIA, according to testimony released Thursday by the US...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday pardoned or commuted the sentences of 81 protesters arrested following the disputed 2009 presidential election . The pardons were made upon the request...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says a recent effort by a conservative advocacy website to besmirsch the reputations of current DOJ lawyers who previously represented detainees should not distract the US government...