Backstory: Communications Management Units in Federal Prisons

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 16, 2011

In 2006, the Bush Administration opened what are known as Communications Management Units, aimed at isolating inmates thought to have links to terrorist-related activity. Reporter and former Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Attorney Alia Malik describes these facilities, who's being kept under the restrictive conditions there, and why critics question their constitutionality.

 

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