Skip navigation

Search

111 results
Page 4 of 6. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Next »

Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA by A panel of judges in the Fourth Circuit agreed with the dismissal of an appeal brought by former ICE detainees held by CoreCivic at their Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico. The ruling was …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regardless of what people without first-hand knowledge of prisons or detention centers believe, prisoners are generally not the blood-thirsty, brutal animals depicted in the media. In fact, especially in the face …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Filed under: Detention - Generally
Immigration Detention Contracts Cancelled in Georgia and Massachusetts by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently ordered two civil immigration detention facilities closed and terminated the contracts for both. DHS said the Carreiro Detention Center in Bristol County, Massachusetts and the Irwin County …
EPA Slams GEO Over Disinfectant Use at Private Prison, Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction to Stop It by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Environmental Protection Agency issued a report and warning in March 2021 to GEO Group for misuse and abuse of a disinfectant at its ICE Processing Center …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Auditor Slams California ICE Facility That Released Detainees With COVID-19 by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon A dozen immigrant asylum seekers who had tested positive for COVID-19 were released from a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center into the surrounding community of Calexico, California, in March 2021—the same …
Publication • 2021
Cambridge University Press, Cosponsoring and Cashing in - US House Members' Support for Punitive Immigration Policy, 2021 Business and Politics (2021), 1–18 doi:10.1017/bap.2021.6 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS RESEARCH ARTICLE Cosponsoring and Cashing In: US House Members’ Support for Punitive Immigration Policy and Financial Payoffs from the Private Prison Industry Jason L. …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Detention - Generally
The Toxic Truth - Organizing Against Migrant Child Detention, Militarism, and Environmental Racism in Homestead, FL THE I rl o J , tJ The Toxic Truth: Organizing Against Migrant Child Detention, Militarism, and Environmental Racism in Homestead, Florida Co-Authored by American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Earthjustice AFSC Authors: Emma …
Report: Border Patrol Misappropriated Funds and Failed to Provide Proper Medical Care to Accurately Report Migrant Deaths by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a surge in migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border made headlines in March 2020, the federal agency in charge was still trying to address deficiencies uncovered …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
ICE Holding Cuban Detainee for 11 Years and Counting Following Florida Prison Release by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Heriberto Delvalle’s story sounds like a Kafka novel, but it’s sadly true. After serving his 15-year sentence for attempted murder in a Florida state prison, he was detained by …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Report: Private Company Rubber-Stamps Inspections of Abuse-Ridden ICE Detention Camps by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss In a report published January 2, 2021, two immigrant advocacy groups — Advocate Visitors with Immigrants in Detention (AVID) and Immigration Law Lab (ILL) — accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials of holding …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
More Than 40 Immigrants Have Died in ICE Custody by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act filing, which wrote about its findings in an October 29, 2020 story, filed by Buzzfeed, we now know that more than 40 immigrants have died while in …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
ICE Detention Facility Deaths Now Highest Since 2005 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The number of people who died in federal Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detention centers during its fiscal year that ended September 30, 2020 — 21 in all — was more than double the previous years’s …
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Nexus Services, VA, Complaint, Deceptive and Threatening Practices, 2021 Case 5:21-cv-00016-EKD Document 1 Filed 02/22/21 Page 1 of 49 Pageid#: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Harrisonburg Division CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS; THE PEOPLE OF …
How a Private Prison Company’s Defamation Suit Against One of Its Critics Backfired by Madison Pauley A judge finds that CoreCivic played a role in the family separation crisis. by Madison Pauley, Mother Jones, December 11, 2020 he mother who would end the Trump administration’s family separation policy arrived at …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
ICE Refused Help in Containing Coronavirus in New Mexico Detention Centers by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) stated that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency refused help controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in its detention centers, jeopardizing detainees’ lives and stonewalling efforts …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Ninth Circuit Finds California Prisoner’s Administrative Remedies Effectively Unavailable by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 16, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a former California pretrial detainee’s suit for non-exhaustion. Joshua Franklin Snyder was a pretrial detainee …
Cofield v. McDonald, MA, Petition for Declaratory and Injuctive Relief, Immigration Detention, 2020 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Suffolk, ss. SJ No. 2020-______ JUAN COFIELD ET AL., Petitioners, v. JOSEPH MCDONALD JR., Plymouth County Sheriff, in his official capacity, and PLYMOUTH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, Respondents. PETITION FOR DECLARATORY AND …
Article • December 8, 2020
USCIS Not required to Travel to Prison to Administer Citizenship and Immigration Services by On December 8, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of Miguel Angel Mendoza-Tarango mandamus claim under 28 U.S.C. 1915A(b)(l) seeking an order to compel United States Citizenship and …
California Passes Bill Allowing ICE Detainees to Sue Private Contractors by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3228 (AB 3228) September 27, 2020, allowing U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detainees to sue private detention facility contractors for alleged abuses of civil rights and …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
New Documentary Released on Forced Sterilizations of Female Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon When many people think about eugenics, visions of a former European fascist regime trying to build a master race or science fiction stories come to mind. Attempts to purge societies of humans whose existence trouble …
Page 4 of 6. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Next »