Excerpt: How to Close a Camp
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
Since 1954
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
Researchers found that detained migrants in the Rio Grande Valley are held in overcrowded, freezing rooms — without beds — for days at a time.
One striker's daughter says staff retaliated against her mom by transferring her to solitary confinement in an all-male facility.
An up-close-and-personal view of family detention in a for-profit lock-up in South Texas.