Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, a 9-year-old girl from Colombia, was detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother for four months after a planned Disney World vacation, where she experienced poor conditions and was separated from her mother during questioning.
Federal authorities are blocking state investigations into shootings by federal immigration agents, leaving local prosecutors to decide how to hold federal officers accountable in a system where Washington controls most of the levers of power.
Governor Jeff Landry’s “tough on crime” policies have resulted in a 78% drop in parole approvals in Louisiana, with stricter eligibility requirements and a new law banning parole for those convicted after August 2024, leading to increased prison populations and criticism from civil rights attorneys and prison reform advocates.
Louisiana prosecutors are seeking to reinstate the overturned conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, despite the victim’s mother believing in his innocence and the flawed evidence used to convict him.
Immigrants in Alabama face harsher punishments for the same crimes as citizens, with sentences that are longer by months or years than nonimmigrants, according to a ProPublica review of over 100 court cases.
A congressional investigation has found that immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims that it only detains immigrants.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a staffing crisis as corrections officers are leaving for more lucrative jobs at ICE, resulting in worse conditions for inmates and staff.
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is criticizing Texas’ near-total abortion ban following the death of 28-year-old mother Tierra Walker, highlighting the growing national crisis of restrictive abortion laws and their impact on maternal health, especially for Black women.
Venezuelan immigrants detained in a federal raid in Chicago have spoken out about their experiences, revealing that they were taken away in the middle of the night with no explanation and have since been deported or detained in jails across the US.
A ProPublica investigation has found that ICE has repeatedly arrested American citizens, misreported those arrests, and disregarded constitutional protections, raising concerns about unchecked federal power and government accountability.
Fox News repeatedly provided a misleading picture of the protests in Portland, Oregon, by using footage from 2020 and mislabeling dates, and portraying protesters as violent when most clashes between protesters and police did not result in any criminal charges or arrests alleging protester violence.
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Illinois lawmakers have passed legislation banning public schools from directly fining students for minor misbehavior, which critics say has disproportionately harmed low-income and minority students, and requiring schools to report their disciplinary actions and involve police in student matters.
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The U.S. Department of Education is facing staff reductions, regulatory rollbacks, and a political agenda that is undermining its ability to enforce federal disability law, resulting in an estimated 1.8 million students with disabilities not receiving the services they are entitled to.
The Trump administration has terminated all Department of Justice funding for the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization working on public safety, incarceration reform, and community-based alternatives to policing, after threatening them with an investigation by the Department of Government Efficiency.
At least a dozen members of Congress have written to the Trump administration about constituents and other citizens whom immigration agents have questioned, detained and even held at gunpoint, and have not received responses, leading to concerns about the administration’s lack of responsiveness to Congress.
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