Friday, September 5, 2014

Which jail do you prefer?

There seems to be a spate of cases arising around the world about where accused military personnel should be housed during pretrial confinement or detention. The latest is this one from Kenya, where a contempt citation has been sought against the chief of the Navy for transferring accuseds from a naval base to a civilian prison. The three Bolivian noncoms who have been much in the news have been complaining about detention in makeshift facilities at Army and Air Force installations, and a recently-apprehended retired Philippine general has sought to be confined in a military rather than a civilian lockup. Presumably some pretrial detainees think they will receive better treatment in a military jail than elsewhere. A function of rank? Whether they have supporters in the force?

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