Lawyers for four Guantánamo captives are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to put an end to the grotesque practice of force-feeding at the Pentagon prison. Officials defend the use of forced-feeding as modeled after U.S. Bureau of Prisons policy. But the lawyers argue that, unlike federal prisoners, these Guantánamo captives have never been charged with a crime and are held not for punishment but more broadly as war-on-terror detainees. There cannot be a...
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