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by busterarm 4532 days ago
I didn't even bother to get to the "jailed without trial" half of his question yet, since that was very publicly signed into law only a couple of years ago and obvious enough to not need rigorous debate.

But yeah. http://www.alternet.org/16-year-old-jailed-rikers-3-years-wi...

And one case most of us are familiar with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/25/10233835-man-spen...