Its not clear to me what basis there is for any imprisonment in any prison inside of US soil, when there is no war in US soil and all the so called foreign wars are made up bullshit.
If his offense stems from a breach of contract, then kidnapping and forced imprisonment and slavery can not be a punishment for that breach of contract except as enforced by civilian courts. He should be able to tell the mercenary group to get lost and sue him in US civilian court.
How many years do soldiers get for killing civilians in the civilian courts?
The use of military tribunals in cases of civilians was often controversial, as tribunals represented a form of justice alien to the common law, which governs criminal justice in the United States, and provides for trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, forbids secret evidence, and provides for public proceedings. Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its decision in Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunals_in_the_Unit...
If his offense stems from a breach of contract, then kidnapping and forced imprisonment and slavery can not be a punishment for that breach of contract except as enforced by civilian courts. He should be able to tell the mercenary group to get lost and sue him in US civilian court.
How many years do soldiers get for killing civilians in the civilian courts?
The use of military tribunals in cases of civilians was often controversial, as tribunals represented a form of justice alien to the common law, which governs criminal justice in the United States, and provides for trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, forbids secret evidence, and provides for public proceedings. Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its decision in Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunals_in_the_Unit...