U.S. to Pay $1.2 Million to 5 Detainees Over Abuse Lawsuit
"The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens were rounded up and held for months before being cleared of links to terrorism and deported."
NINA BERNSTEIN in the New York Times.