“Our administration will look like America,” the presidential contender tells Capital & Main. “We have got to undo the racism and xenophobia of the Trump administration.”
Immigrant detainees are not convicted criminals, yet they suffer hostile, prison-like conditions in America for years at a time.
A federal court ruling allows hundreds of thousands of former detainees to sue the GEO Group.
Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.
The Democratic frontrunner's mixed economic record leaves him vulnerable to progressive opponents.
A bill awaiting Gov. Newsom's signature would bar new private prison contracts. Two industry giants are already reinventing themselves.
An ICE investigation details days of suffering in which Kamyar Samimi pleaded for help and attempted suicide because he said the pain from methadone withdrawal was...
A proposed California law would require the attorney general to conduct immediate investigations of immigrant-detention deaths.
ICE says immigrant detainees are only obligated to make their beds and avoid clutter. But a for-profit prison company is accused of forcing them to do...
Co-published by the American Prospect A year after Janus v. AFSCME, right-to-work forces organize against organized labor in California.
Restorative justice remains a new way of thinking for Los Angeles' 1,300 public schools -- even as administrators continue to call the cops on troublesome students.
Los Angeles charters suspended black students at almost three times the rate of traditional schools; students with disabilities were suspended at nearly four times the non-charter...
Immigration activists and state agencies continue to put pressure on California's ICE facilities.
State investigations raise concerns about human rights abuses in federal detention facilities.
The closure of an immigrant detention center could represent a setback for the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.
Co-published by the American Prospect Angry immigrant rights activists say the generous ICE funding flies in the face of many Democrats’ stated desire to put the...
Co-published by Fast Company Immigrant-detainee suicides indicate that the Stewart Detention Center and ICE are out of step with a trend in corrections to keep seriously...
In September 2017, Capital & Main requested reviews of 18 immigrant detainee deaths that had occurred in 2016 and early 2017. ICE has still not released...
Co-published by Fast Company How a private prison company silenced the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from releasing details about an immigrant detainee's death.
The new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives could pose a challenge to the agency’s chronic overspending -- and to its aggressive detention and deportation...