Taxpayers are paying $438,000 each year for an Arizona city to be the middleman between ICE and a Texas private prison for detainees.
Criminal Justice
Crime and punishment, from the street to the courtroom and prisons
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Criminal Justice
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.
Posted inAccountability, Border Patrol, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Money and Politics, National Security, The Wall
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.
Posted inAccountability, Border Patrol, Criminal Justice, National Security, Solitary Confinement, The Trump Era, The Wall
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.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
Too many pills
We tell the story of of how a DEA insider tried to stop drug distribution companies from flooding America with truckloads of pain pills.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Health Care, Immigration, Kids on the Line, Religion and Government, The Trump Era
ACLU files suit over abortion access for migrant girl in federal custody
“We are providing excellent care to the adolescent girl and her unborn child, who remain under our care until the mother’s release.”
Posted inCriminal Justice, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, Prisons, The Trump Era
Judge denies ACLU effort to release detained migrant girl for abortion
“The government may not want to facilitate abortion, but it cannot block it. It is doing that here,” the federal judge also writes in her ruling.
Posted inBorder Patrol, Criminal Justice, Immigration, National Security, The Trump Era, The Wall
ICE issues plan to detain 1,000 more migrants in Texas
“This would continue the trend of this administration’s giveaways to the private prison industry at the expense of immigrants,” one advocate says.
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.