News & Commentary
Jul 01, 2015
Lie is exposed; deputies convicted
The deputies’ brazen lies were exposed in photographs taken a day after Gabriel Carrillo was brutally beaten when he went to the Los Angeles County Jail to visit his brother.
Jun 30, 2015
Time to end unlawful and discriminatory citizenship practices
The following post was originally published on Giving In LA.
By Katie Traverso
Jun 25, 2015
ICE is playing the name game
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rolled out a new immigration enforcement program this month that it bills as an improved approach to using city and county police and jails for immigration enforcement.
By Jennie Pasquarella
Jun 18, 2015
Shackle a pregnant woman, risk a foreseeable tragedy
The news on Mother’s Day left her elated: she was pregnant with her first child. But Monserrat Ruiz Cuevas’ celebration was short lived.When she learned she was pregnant, she was in custody at the Mesa Verde Detention Center, an immigration facility in Bakersfield operated by GEO Group, Inc. Within days Monserrat became ill and was taken to a hospital for urgent medical care.
By Katie Traverso
Jun 15, 2015
There's no "transgender" exception to medically necessary care
There is no “transgender exception” to the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution—the provision that prohibits “cruel and unusual” punishment. That prohibition obligates prisons to treat inmates’ serious medical needs regardless of their sexual orientation. And that treatment
By Melissa Goodman
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