U. Mass Law Journal: The Efficacy of Indefinite Detention

Published: 5 U. MASS. ROUNDTABLE SYMP. L. J. (2010).

This note discusses the potential indefinite detention, also called preventative detention, of the Uighur detainees. Until early 2010, the U.S. Government had been unable to resettle seventeen Uighurs for over 5 years. In 2009, the Supreme Court, granted certiorari on the issue of whether federal courts have the authority to “order the release of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay ‘where the Executive detention is indefinite and without authorization in law, and release into the continental United States is the only possible effective remedy.’