Charleston Brig Expanding to Hold Alleged Federal Terror Suspect
The future of the Guantanamo Bay detention center is being positioned to be shut down in the coming year. The center is used to house individuals charged with alleged acts of terror against the United States. The facility is placed outside of the United States becuase many of the activites conducted there are completely unconstitutional. Now, with the plan to shut it down, these detainees will have to be housed in another location. Most European countries will not allow a facility of this type, so it must be placed in the United States.
The Charleston Naval Weapons Station has been used in the past to hold enemy combatants that are awaiting prosecution or possible freedom. Many of these individuals that are being held do not have any pending federal charges. There is no federal detention center in South Carolina, so federal defendants are held in local jails pending trial. The Charleston Courier and Post has reported that Sentor Graham is opposed to using Charleston Naval brig as a holding facility. Graham has stated that the detainees should be housed in a facility designed for detaining such suspects. The problem here is that Guantanamo was never designed to hold prisons of war or alleged terror suspects. The big fear about having these suspects here in the United States is that they will have better access to the courts and their lawyers if they can get one.
Our federal defense attorneys in South Carolina have previously attempted to represent several of the suspects in Guantanamo to no avail. The lawyers that are representing many of these individuals are approved by the United States Justice Department prior to being allowed to represent the defendants. Many defendants are being released and allowed to return to their respective countries. Finding a good federal criminal defense attorney is very important to any federal indictment.
Our criminal attorneys in Charleston can help with any federal indictment. A good criminal attorney in South Carolina is able to handle any federal indictment. Our South Carolina defense lawyers travel all over the State defending federal indictments.
