ITEM OVERVIEW
On any given day, over 20,000 men, women and children languish in indefinite detention in the United States. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, thousands more are imprisoned or shipped to other countries, where the rules for interrogation permit greater amounts of coercion and violence. These are America's disappeared. This book contains their voices, and the voices of those who fight for their rights as human beings. Together for the first time in one book are detainees' own testimonies with a comprehensive framework for understanding the issues by leading constitutional scholars working for their release. Going beyond the prevailing accounts to a detailed exploration of detention—the forms currently in use and the conditions of each—the authors authoritatively refute its alleged justifications, boldly exploring its human costs. The short book includes a history of US detention policy and warns of the dangerous precedent set by the current post 9/11 example.
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