Criminal Legal System
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Bloomberg Law: ‘I Can’t Breathe.’ Police Use Restraint With Fatal Results
Bloomberg Law reports that law enforcement agencies across the United States have used a full-body restraint device known as “The Wrap” in at least 41 incidents in which the restrained person later died. The device, which immobilizes individuals from the shoulders to the feet, comes with extensive manufacturer warnings against use on people who are…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Inspections Plummeted as Detentions Soared in 2025 Amid a massive expansion in immigration detention in 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically reduced the number of facility inspection reports by the agency’s Office of Detention Oversight (ODO), one of its key tools for tracking detention conditions. There was a 36.25% decline in ICE
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Gutting of Key US Watchdog Could Pave Way for Grave Immigration Abuses, Experts Warn The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
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Ethical Society of Police v. Bondi: Preserving racial-justice mediation
This case challenges the illegal closure of the Community Relations Service, a federal agency created by Congress to mediate the most volatile conflicts, bridging divides among diverse communities, and safeguarding civil rights for the vulnerable.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration ‘Inadvertently’ Deported Transgender Woman to Mexico Despite Judge’s Concern she May Face Torture There The Trump administration admitted it “inadvertently” deported a transgender woman to Mexico this month after a judge ordered she not be removed to the country over fears she may be tortured or violently persecuted. The government has said
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Yahoo! News: A former magistrate exiled in the US fears an “attack” if she returns to Guatemala
A former judge on Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, Gloria Porras was well-known for championing anti-corruption efforts in the country.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Human Rights Organizations Document Abuses in El Salvador Prison A report by Human Rights Watch and Central American rights group Cristosal alleges that dozens of Venezuelans deported from the United States to a Salvadoran prison earlier this year were subjected to torture and other serious abuses including sexual violence. The
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Private Prison Operator CoreCivic Saw 55% Increase in Immigration Detainee Contracts CoreCivic has seen a substantial increase in revenue over the past six months, driven by a steady rise in new federal government contracts signed as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. The Brentwood, Tennessee-based private prison operator announced its quarterly earnings Wednesday,
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WIRED: DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly uncovered government data reveals that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been quietly collecting DNA samples from nearly 2,000 U.S. citizens, including minors, and funneling them into the FBI’s criminal DNA database, CODIS
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration Increasingly Places Immigrants in Solitary Confinement, Report Finds Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed at least 10,588 people
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New complaints expose pattern of systemic sexual abuse, harassment, and forced labor at Louisiana ICE facility
Woman and three transgender people come forward regarding abuse at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center
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