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Prisons Allow Private Companies to Cut Off Communication With Loved Ones
Some states are allowing private companies to decide which people in prison are allowed to contact their family members.
“Bending the Bars” Rap Album Fights Damaging Stereotypes of Incarcerated People
“Bending the Bars” rips away bipartisan propaganda by letting incarcerated artists speak their truth.
I Wrote This From Solitary Confinement. I Refuse to Let It Break Me.
“The hole” is a prison within a prison, where I’m just another number without a name.
DOJ Charges New Jersey Congresswoman With Assault Following ICE Jail Visit
The baseless charges “should send a chill down the spine of every American," said Rep. Greg Casar.
Now Free, Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi Discusses His Experience in ICE Jail
He says there’s an “interconnectedness between injustices,” as family members have been incarcerated in Israeli jails.
Having Survived Solitary, I Refuse to Conflate the Imaginable With the Possible
White supremacy might limit what we can easily imagine, but through writing, we can shape more liberatory futures.
Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Hands Are Really Tied Over Kilmar Abrego García
At stake is whether some deported to El Salvador could be brought back to the US to receive due process denied to them.
Georgetown Peace Scholar Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail
A federal immigration judge will rule on Badar Khan Suri’s case in the coming days.
Van Hollen: Abrego García’s Rights Matter for All Americans
Four more senators have since traveled to El Salvador to continue pressuring for Abrego García’s release.
Sanders Dubs Trump’s Defiance of SCOTUS Order “New Step” Toward Authoritarianism
In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled the administration must bring a wrongly deported father back to the US.