The American Correctional Association has granted accreditation to includes detention centers, prisons, and jails where people are held in horrific conditions.
Last week, FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) launched a campaign, calling on state and federal lawmakers to visit a prison, jail, or juvenile detention facility in the next 12 months. The challenge highlights the fact that although legislators make the laws governing when people can be sent to jail or prison, and for how long; […]
In recent years, the number of people federally charged with smuggling and harboring has jumped nearly a third.
Migrants near Brownsville, Texas say that if they don’t bribe Mexican officials they’re stuck at the bottom of a list of people seeking refuge in the U.S. via international bridges.
As they wait for permission to cross into the U.S., migrants, including children and infants, sleep on concrete and under plastic tarps, exposing them to cold, wind, rain, and illness.
Under ‘Operation Streamline,’ Border Patrol has become responsible for the housing and transporting of immigrants.
New bail funds aren’t just getting immigrants out of detention—they’re helping them stay in the country permanently.
Families are torn apart by the criminal justice system every day.
‘We have a reaction as mothers to what’s been going on.’
Public defenders say immigrants arrested under Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy are being denied their due process rights.