The Atlanta-based rapper’s untimely run-in with immigration enforcement agents offers a window into the world of the tens of thousands of immigrants currently locked in ICE jails.
Incarceration
Posted inLaw and Justice
Rethinking Incarceration
What needs to be done to be done to end our half-century long incarceration nightmare?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Texas Detention Players Ramp Up Trump’s For-Profit ‘Baby Jails’
A Texas court ruling on child-care providers offers the Trump administration a way around protections for underage migrants.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Not Everyone Can Evacuate as Hurricane Florence Approaches
Many in the path of the storm, including poor residents and hundreds of prisoners, are forced to stay put.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Jeff Sessions and the Conservative Nostalgia for Harsh Sentencing
A new Republican bill would slap nonviolent criminals with 15-year mandatory minimum sentences. White-collar crimes, property crimes, and drug-related offenses would all count toward being considered a “career armed criminal.”
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Davos Man
We can only imagine what Donald Trump will say when he addresses the World Economic Forum at the elite ski resort.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The New Reformer DAs
As cities grow more progressive, a new breed of prosecutors are winning office and upending the era of lock-’em-up justice. They may hold the key to resisting Trump’s mania for mass incarceration.
Posted inWorking in America
Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Labor
As a Louisiana sheriff’s off-the-cuff remarks and the California wildfires remind us, all states depend on and profit from putting prisoners to work—and that’s a problem.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Prison Phone Industry Further Isolates Prisoners
The high profits of expensive phone calls and video visits are often too lucrative for prisons—which can get a share of those profits—to pass up.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
In Hurricane Season, Underwater and Behind Bars
The poor, the old, and the disabled seldom seek shelter—because they can’t. And often no one evacuates inmates.