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The US Coast Guard Is Operating Floating Prisons in the Pacific Ocean, Outside US Legal Protections
Traci Tong | Public Radio International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2017

24 Nov 2017 – If you’ve followed the War on Terror at all, you’re almost certainly familiar with the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — a US prison that exists outside the realm of the US justice system. Now, it turns out, there’s a secret US detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard US Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean.

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