“This is simply terrible economics that paralyzes communities and families, especially communities and families of color.”
As Texas considered passing HB 2, dangerous bail legislation that would increase jailing of the state’s most vulnerable, we joined local advocates in calling for this bill to be stopped.
Tags Share Sparked by protests following George Floyd’s murder, bail funds have experienced a surge of attention and fundraising. Just last summer, bail funds received over $90 million in donations—including $1 million from RFK Human Rights and Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp—to support their urgent work freeing people from pretrial detention. The Dallas Morning…
Tags Share “Brody Ford, a 2020 University of Illinois Chicago graduate in political science and communication, and Nicole Sroka, a 2021 UIC graduate in criminology, law and justice and communication, were among a team of 35 student-journalists from Arizona State University’s Carnegie-Knight News21 program to win the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The award-winning…
RFK Human Rights’ staff attorney Sarah Decker spoke with KLFY in Louisiana on our latest immigration report.
Inhumane conditions and overuse of solitary confinement were just some of the egregious human rights violations found at the Pine Prairie immigrant detention center.
RFK Human Rights’ investigation with ISLA found a horrifying pattern of abusive solitary confinement at ICE’s Pine Prairie detention center in Louisiana.
Pine Prairie, a for-profit immigrant detention center run by the GEO Group, was found to use prolonged and often racially-driven solitary confinement practices.
Tags Share More than 60% of people in Texas’ jails—some 40,000 individuals—have not been convicted of a crime. In fact, most of them are only in jail because they can’t afford to pay bail. Texas Governor Greg Abbott knows full well that eliminating cash bail could spare tens of thousands of his constituents from unfairly…
RFK Human Rights calls upon President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas to immediately grant Temporary Protected Status to all Cameroonians in the United States.
Tags Share Raelan Lambert doesn’t think that investing in women and diverse managers is a fad. Instead, it’s the smart thing to do for investors who wish to capture strong risk-adjusted returns for the long term. Consider that almost 30% of women-led private equity firms are generating top quartile returns, along with 34% of diversely-owned…
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