Sentences with phrase «military detention center»

Many ended up at a special military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In April 1986, according to the Christic Institute lawsuit, President Reagan issued a top - secret National Security Decision Directive, which authorized the creation of ten military detention centers within the United States capable of housing 400,000 political prisoners.

Addressing issues such as the politics of institutionalized care in hospitals and military detention centers, the FDA's ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, and the challenges posed by medical treatments of cancer and HIV, In the Power of Your Care proposes that health care as a human right can be upheld through community - based efforts and policy change.

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These detention centers were to be used «in the event that President Reagan chose to declare a «State of Domestic National Emergency» concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation into Central America.

This is because the Movement has credible evidence that a large number of its members are still in detention in military facilities and detention centers.

Currently, there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, 79 Indian Country jails, military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in U.S. territories.