By Maral Ali The Terre Haute CMU contains a mostly Muslim prison population. One such case is Seyed Mahmood Mousavi, a Muslim community leader in Southern California who founded Masjid Al-Nabi in West Covina. He is the father of four children (the youngest is a sophomore at UCLA) and an active member of the local community. Because of his activism, he had been under the radar of the FBI for some time. On June 29, 2006, at six in the [...]

By Maral Ali Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have come to symbolize the face of the “War on Terror” and the many abuses that took place in that era, yet even with the end of the Bush Administration, a silent legacy remains in the form of secret illegal prisons in the United States designed to hold terrorists. The Communication Management Units (CMUs) are medium-security terrorism units located within the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana and in the US [...]