Preventive detention allows governments to detain people without charging them with a crime in order to prevent potential criminal acts or threats to national security. However, preventive detention violates human rights as it denies detained individuals fair trials and knowledge of the reasons for their detention, potentially leading to indefinite detention without due process. While preventive detention could stop terrorist attacks, it is unconstitutional in the United States as everyone has a right to a fair trial according to the Constitution.

1. Preventive Detention

2. …is A system in which people can be detained by his/her government without having committed a crime.

3. Argument Preventive detention is a violation of human rights. Every person is entitled to a fair trial and should be allowed to know why he/she is being detained.

4. Problematic System Person can be detained indefinitely without being told why. Accused has no defense or trial. Accused is arrested on suspicion of being a threat, not for any specific crime.

5. United States Barack Obama proposed a preventive detention plan for the United States. He recently withdrew the bill from congress, but the United States already has a form of preventive detention that passed after 9/11.

6. UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Every person has the right to a fair trial according to the United States Constitution.

7. Counterargument Could possibly prevent a terrorist attack. Rids the streets of National Security threats.

8. Final Thought Stopping a crime before it happens is a tremendous feat; however, isn’t that “potential” criminal still a human being, and don’t all human beings deserve the same rights.

9. Sources Used Feingold To Obama: Preventive Detention Is Unconstitutional By Brian Beutler - May 25, 2009, 10:51AM http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/feingold-to-obama-preventive-detention-is-unconstitutional.php ▪ Greenwald, Glenn "Facts and Myths About Obama's Preventive Detention Proposal" May 22, 2009 http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/22/preventive_detention/ Not a very well-Known website and I could not find much about Glenn Greenwald.