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A special administrative measure (SAM) is a process under United States law (; see also USAM (title 9 chapter 24 ) — Requests for Special Confinement Conditions) whereby the United States Attorney General may direct the United States Bureau of Prisons to use "special administrative measures" regarding housing of and correspondence and visitors to specific inmates. It includes prisoners awaiting or being tried, as well as those convicted, when it is alleged there is a "substantial risk that a prisoner's communications or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury to persons, or substantial damage to property that would entail the risk of death or serious bodily injury to persons." Such measures are used to prevent acts of violence or terrorism or disclosure of classified information. The law is considered particularly controversial because it permits monitoring of attorney-client communications of designated prisoners.〔Thomas F. Gede, Kent S. Scheidegger, William G. Otis (Monitoring Attorney-Client Communications of Designated Federal Prisoners ), Federalist Society, December 3, 2001.〕 Initiated in November 2001, the Department of Justice considered this an expansion of an existing regulation. Formerly it was only allowed through a court order. It specified that information protected by attorney-client privilege could not be used for prosecution; however, communications related to ongoing or contemplated illegal acts was not covered."〔(Justice to monitor some attorney-client communications ), CNN, November 9, 2001.〕 As of May 22, 2009, 44 out of 205,000 federal inmates were subject to SAMs, 29 incarcerated on terrorism-related charges, 11 on violent crime-related charges and four on espionage charges.〔(Fact Sheet: Prosecuting and Detaining Terror Suspects in the U.S. Criminal Justice System ), United States Department of Justice, June 9, 2009.〕 Well known individuals who have been under special administrative measures include American Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh〔Johnson, Carrie, "Prison Officials Are Loosening Restrictions On Taliban Supporter", ''Washington Post'', March 18, 2009, p. 6.〕 and organized crime figure Frank Calabrese, Sr.〔Chuck Goudie, (Convicted mob boss complains about prison ), ABC News, November 17, 2010.〕 Perhaps the best known application of this provision was the prosecution of attorney Lynne Stewart and interpreter Mohamed Yousry for passing messages between Omar Abdel-Rahman and his supporters in violation of a special administrative measure against communications. After her conviction, sentencing and re-sentencing to 10 years in prison, she appealed on freedom of speech grounds. Other cases include Syed Fahad Hashmi (see below), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon bomber, who never could speak privately to his attorneys. ==See also== *Civil liberties in the United States *Human rights in the United States 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Special administrative measure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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