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Seth Freed Wessler

Seth Freed Wessler is an independent journalist and senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. He is the recipient of a 2014-15 Soros Justice Media Fellowship.

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Posted inAccountability

Monumental lies

Fernanda Camarena by Stan Alcorn, Brian Palmer, Seth Freed Wessler, Fernanda Camarena, Kevin Sullivan, Jen Chien, Esther Kaplan, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Al Letson June 19, 2021July 1, 2021

Statues celebrating Confederates and conquistadors keep old myths alive, with stories of “benevolent slave owners,” heroic colonizers and enslaved people “contented with their lot.”

An illustration in shades of orange shows a group of male prisoners with their hands cuffed in front of them. They all wear surgical masks.
Posted inPrisons

Sick on the inside

by Sarah Mirk, Stan Alcorn, Seth Freed Wessler, Esther Kaplan, Susanne Reber, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson April 3, 2021July 1, 2021

For decades, the U.S. has run private “shadow prisons” for immigrants convicted of federal crimes. Biden has ordered the government to wind down those contracts.

Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Immigration

Justice Department to end all federal private prisons

by Seth Freed Wessler August 18, 2016June 30, 2021

In a historic rebuke of the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice today announced plans to eliminate the use of private prisons to incarcerate federal inmates.

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Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Immigration

Feds will shut down troubled private prison in Nation investigation

by Seth Freed Wessler August 15, 2016June 30, 2021

The Bureau of Prisons has notified one of the country’s leading private prison companies, Corrections Corporation of America, that a troubled federal prison the company operated for 16 years will be closed down.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Health Care, Immigration, Prisons

Private prison operator sued over death at immigrant facility

by Seth Freed Wessler March 15, 2016June 30, 2021

The family of a federal prisoner has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that private prison operators negligently left him in the care of underqualified medical workers who failed to respond properly to a medical emergency.

Posted inCriminal Justice, Immigration, Prisons

Medical neglect can be fatal in privatized immigrant-only prisons

by Seth Freed Wessler February 4, 2016June 30, 2021

The Bureau of Prisons has 11 facilities – operated by private corporations – that are used exclusively for noncitizens. But these contract prisons are bound by a less stringent set of rules, and an independent review suggests that inadequate medical care likely contributed to some inmate deaths.

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