Stewart Detention Center, where two immigrants died, had no psychiatrist and dangerously low staffing levels, internal records show.
Category: Criminal Justice
Crime and punishment, from the street to the courtroom and prisons
Cops on a crime spree
They belonged to a police task force charged with getting guns off the streets. Instead, the cops roamed Baltimore, robbing people on the street.
What cops aren’t learning (rebroadcast)
We team up with American Public Media to look at why police spend more time learning to shoot their guns than learning how to avoid firing them.
California Conservation Corps ignored warning signs before fatal van crash
Facts and circumstances never disclosed until now tell a complicated story about the agency’s role in a collision that killed three corps members.
Austin stops selling police guns after Texas Standard/Reveal investigation
City officials said they were worried that guns sold to the public would end up in the hands of criminals.
DOJ’s California sanctuary suit doesn’t challenge ICE detainers
Putting an end to honoring detainers filed by ICE is a cornerstone of California’s sanctuary law. But DOJ’s new lawsuit doesn’t challenge that.
In 3-way deal, ICE is paying Arizona town to hold detainees in Texas
Taxpayers are paying $438,000 each year for an Arizona city to be the middleman between ICE and a Texas private prison for detainees.
Suit: Oklahoma sheriffs, judges let company extort people over court debts
A federal suit claims an Oklahoma company extorts thousands of people too poor to pay their court debts, without hearings required by law.
We’re suing the government over border wall spending records
With so much taxpayer money at stake and few details about how it would be used, we wanted to know how much the government had already spent.
Watchdog agency criticizes immigrant detention conditions
Immigrants are being denied medical care, strip-searched and threatened at six ICE detention facilities, a new watchdog report finds.