U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean

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U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
Traci Tong, PRI Published 3:43 a.m. ET Nov. 28, 2017 | Updated 8:12 a.m. ET Nov. 28, 2017


If you've followed the War on Terror at all, you're almost certainly familiar with the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — a U.S. prison that exists outside the realm of the U.S. justice system.

Now, it turns out, there's a secret U.S. detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/28/u-s-coast-guard-operating-secret-floating-prisons-pacific-ocean/900462001/

[Fishrrman]

I've got no problems with this at all.

Drug smuggling should be risky business, one in which those who participate should expect harsh treatment -- even death -- if caught.