Jails and Prisons

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The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart

The 2,300 children who have been taken from their parents face a tangled legal process and a shortage of lawyers to help them through it.

Jun 21, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter

Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration

Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration

It also opens up military bases as detention centers and indicates an intention to reopen the Flores settlement.

Jun 20, 2018 / Julianne Hing

South Texas Family Residential Center

How Private Contractors Enable Trump’s Cruelties at the Border How Private Contractors Enable Trump’s Cruelties at the Border

Private-prison groups and several Fortune 500 companies are profiting off “zero-tolerance” enforcement. 

Jun 20, 2018 / David Dayen

Sister Simone Campbell

Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Are Quoting the Bible—and These Nuns Are Not Having It Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Are Quoting the Bible—and These Nuns Are Not Having It

“Give me a break,” says Sister Simone Campbell.

Jun 20, 2018 / John Nichols

Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’

Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’ Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’

The congresswoman met with dozens of immigrant mothers who have had their children forcibly removed. 

Jun 11, 2018 / Joan Walsh

What Senator Jeff Merkley Saw at an Immigrant Detention Center for Children

What Senator Jeff Merkley Saw at an Immigrant Detention Center for Children What Senator Jeff Merkley Saw at an Immigrant Detention Center for Children

“The tiniest kid at the front of the line, he was knee-high to a grasshopper. He was 4, maybe 5 years old.”

Jun 6, 2018 / Joan Walsh

Can the California Elections Usher in a Slate of Progressive District Attorneys?

Can the California Elections Usher in a Slate of Progressive District Attorneys? Can the California Elections Usher in a Slate of Progressive District Attorneys?

For the first time in years, conservative incumbents are facing reform-minded challengers. Can the reformers prevail?

Jun 5, 2018 / Jessica Pishko

Phoenix May Day

Why It Matters That Phoenix Is Suing the Trump Administration Why It Matters That Phoenix Is Suing the Trump Administration

Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, May 2018: From Phoenix to Detroit and beyond.

May 31, 2018 / Sophie Kasakove

Elderly inmates

By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50 By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50

The criminal-justice system is failing to deal with our aging prison population in a humane way.

May 29, 2018 / Michelle Chen

What Does It Take to Write a Novel About Prison?

What Does It Take to Write a Novel About Prison? What Does It Take to Write a Novel About Prison?

An interview with Rachel Kushner about her new novel, The Mars Room.

May 23, 2018 / Jon Wiener

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