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| Terrorism inmates complain about prison rules |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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Three federal terrorism inmates in Florence, Colorado have filed court challenges to prison rules that they say restrict too many of their rights. One of them is Wadih El Hage, a former resident of Arlington, Texas. The one-time personal secretary for Osama bin Laden is serving a life sentence for conspiring in the 1998 bombings of U-S embassies in Africa. He arrived at the Florence prison in 2001. He says he can't watch television stations that broadcast news, lives in solitary confinement and can't talk to other inmates. In a filing in federal court in Denver this year, El Hage said he has seen one newspaper since his arrival. It was a month old. Letters from his family sometimes take months to get through the FBI, which screens his mail, he said. A judge recently dismissed El Hage's lawsuit because he missed a deadline for a court fee. El Hage blamed the mistake on the delays in receiving mail. |
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