Wells Dixon is a West Hartford native and attended West Hartford schools. He graduated from John Hopkins University and University of Colorado Law School. He is a former law clerk to the Honorable Christopher Droney of the US District Court for Connecticut. At the CCR he works on the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative callenging the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He lectures and comments frequently on national security issues, executive detention and torture. Wells Dixon says the government seems to have given drugs to detainees whose extended captivity made them distraught or rebellious. “Many of these men have become desperately suicidal,” Dixon says. “And the government’s response has been to administer more medication, often without the consent of the prisoners.”
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