The US Coast Guard is operating floating prisons in the Pacific Ocean, outside US legal protections

If you"ve followed the War on Terror at all, you"re almost certainly familiar with the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — a US prison that exists outside the realm of the US justice system. Now, it turns out, there"s a secret US detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard US Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean.