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Migrant Jails
Japanese-American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids
Five Japanese-American elders engaged in civil disobedience Saturday outside the Fort Sill Army post in Oklahoma.
Chaos, Illness and Danger Pervade Migrant Child Jail in Texas
Lawyers who visited the facility said children are unable to shower or change into clean clothes for weeks on end.
They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons
Asylum seekers have been ensnared by the prison-industrial complex, a system of death and destruction.
DHS Watchdog Confirms Horrific Conditions at Immigrant Jails
At least 24 immigrants have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump.
Incarcerated Immigrants Are Being Tortured
Hunger strikers in a Texas immigration jail are risking their lives to draw attention to the conditions.
Attorneys Rush to Protect Families as Trump Calls for Stripping Due Process
House legislation and two legal challenges to family separation and detention could move forward Wednesday.
The False Choice Between Jailing Children and Separating Families
Trump ended a case management program that kept families together and out of custody.
Survivor-Centered Tribunals Find ICE Guilty of Abuses, Push for Agency’s Abolition
Survivors' truth-commission-style testimonies loudly proclaim a path forward: abolition.
Senate Bill Would End Tax Breaks for Private Prison Companies
New legislation would make it harder for private prisons to masquerade as real estate investment trusts.
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Unexplained Death of Jailed Immigrant Sparks Renewed Struggle for Reform in Canada
At least 15 people have died in immigrant jails in Canada since 2000, prompting calls for reform and structural changes.