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When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras ...

An expanding detention network is being built out across the Midwest. Since Illinois banned immigrant detention, ICE sends ...

Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

After Ballard’s fall, the people he helped arrest in Washington want to know why no one seems willing to take a second look ...

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On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation’s largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...

State Senator Julia Salazar argues in a Q&A that policing reforms “have failed” and that funds should be reinvested into other services; she also lays out bills she is supporting to improve ...

Last year, as the pandemic raged, Jane received an eviction notice for failing to pay the rent for her apartment in Durham, North Carolina. Her landlord is one of many across the country who have ...