“This would continue the trend of this administration’s giveaways to the private prison industry at the expense of immigrants,” one advocate says.
Criminal Justice
Crime and punishment, from the street to the courtroom and prisons
Posted inBorder Patrol, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Prisons, The Trump Era
ICE violates own policy by locking up pregnant women, complaint alleges
Nine pregnant women were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for as long as three months, according to the complaint.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Criminal Justice
Why does Oklahoma lock up so many women? Hundreds gather at solutions forum
“I was just one of the lucky ones to make it out and to be different than the statistics,” said one young woman whose mother was incarcerated.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons
Reveal, The Atlantic to present Oklahoma forum on female incarceration
Reveal and The Atlantic will team up for a forum on Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate, the highest in the U.S.
Posted inBorder Patrol, Criminal Justice, National Security, The Trump Era
Justice Department weighs cutting grants to several ‘sanctuary cities’
“It is not enough to assert compliance, the jurisdictions must actually be in compliance,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Militarization of Police, National Security, The Trump Era
Milwaukee to feds: We follow immigration law
With a looming deadline to prove cooperation with U.S. immigration agents, at least one county has told the Trump administration that it follows the law – despite little guidance on how officials are supposed to show that.
Posted inBorder Patrol, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, The Trump Era, The Wall
Federal official says border wall project on schedule. It’s not
Construction of prototypes for President Donald Trump’s border wall may not start until the end of this summer, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said Tuesday, the latest phase of the project to run over the announced timetable.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement
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Trial and terror
President Donald Trump has used the threat of foreign-born terrorists to justify his travel ban – but since 9/11, nearly every terrorist attack in the
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Hate, Immigration, Law Enforcement
Far-right extremists have hatched far more terror plots than anyone else in recent years
An analysis of nine years of domestic terrorism incidents by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and Reveal has found a very different pict
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement
Interactive: 9 years of homegrown terror
President Donald Trump says that “radical Islamic terrorism” is the biggest threat to the U.S. Yet the majority of recent domestic terrorism incidents come from far-right perpetrators.