Criminal Legal System
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Federal Agents in NY Retreat in SUV with Slashed Tires as Protesters Shout ‘Gestapo’ Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in an affluent Rochester neighborhood after being confronted by more than 100 protesters on Tuesday. The group shouted “shame” and “Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center in Notorious Louisiana Prison The maximum-security prison known as Angola, notorious for a history of violence and harsh conditions, has long been the repository for Louisiana’s worst offenders. Most inmates arrive with life sentences. Now, the prison, officially the Louisiana State Penitentiary, will also hold immigrants who have…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There When Lloyd Gray stood trial for rape in 1980, two jurors didn’t believe he was guilty and voted to acquit. Today, a split-jury verdict would mean a mistrial and possibly Gray’s freedom. But back…
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Lucero v. United States: Accountability for anti-Latino racism and violence
This case seeks international accountability for the creation by the United States government of a climate that fosters discrimination and violence against Latinos residing in the country. This climate has led to a sharp increase in the number of human rights violations committed against Latinos in the United States.
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The Marshall Project: The Next Alligator Alcatraz Could Be in Your State
Tags Share Immigrants held in detention are increasingly being sent to state and federal prisons, including many with troubling human rights records. This new practice has already led to abuses, as the unclear legal authority dictating the status of ICE detainees held in prisons means that they are often unable to contact their attorneys or…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid When Trump announced on Aug. 11 that he would deploy hundreds of National Guard members and federalize the local police to “take back” the capital, he framed the mission as a crackdown on violent crime. He cited cases of…
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The Intercept: Teen Immigrant’s Release Propels Lawsuit to End ICE’s Courthouse Arrests
Tags Share A Buffalo teen arrested outside of his asylum hearing has been released after a judge ruled his arrest was unlawful. Following this victory, the New York Civil Liberties Union and other organizations are suing the Trump administration to end courthouse arrests nationwide. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights staff attorney Sarah Gillman said, “We…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share These Civil Rights Advocates Toured Louisiana ICE Detention Centers. Here’s What They Saw. In late July, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided access to three detention centers they operate in Louisiana to a group of about 20 civil rights advocates. Their tour included the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, located on…
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Kerry Kennedy for Newsweek: Your Financial Portfolio Might Be Funding Immigration Prisons
Tags Share Kerry Kennedy and the ACLU’s Alanah Odoms describe the growing humanitarian crisis occurring in ICE detention centers, and how many people might be unknowingly contributing to it through their investment portfolios. The article urges readers to divest from this “cruel detention network.” Read the full story here.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ‘Horrific’: Report Reveals Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children at US ICE Facilities A new report has found hundreds of reported cases of human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers. The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and…
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Democrat and Chronicle: ICE detention center guards in Batavia NY used force improperly: audit
Tags Share Recent federal audits reveal that guards at an ICE immigration detention center in upstate New York improperly used force against individuals held there. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Director of Strategic U.S. Litigation Sarah Gillman said, “The inappropriate use of force that was found in the audit are consistent with what the people…
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The New York Times: Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention
Tags Share In President Trump’s second term, ICE has ramped up deportations in NYC by arresting migrants during routine check-ins at immigration offices and courts. New data shows over 2,300 arrests since January, many of them longtime residents with no criminal record. Inside detention, migrants report inhumane conditions, including lack of medical care, overcrowding, and…
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