"When the illness began, they sprayed something like Clorox...everything was covered with it three times a day."
Here, "Claudia" reveals the deprivations she and others endured at Jackson Parish Correctional Center.
Here, "Claudia" reveals the deprivations she and others endured at Jackson Parish Correctional Center.
Activist Edafe Okporo's new book is a how-to guide on using compassion to create a positive revolution against hatred and bigotry.
A recent CRCL complaint demands that hunger strikers detained at Pine Prairie be released immediately from solitary confinement.
A letter from Cuban asylum seekers details horrific conditions, attempted suicides and medical neglect at La Palma Correctional Center.
New legislation that went into effect last month will have a devastating impact on asylum seekers.
MKF shares his declaration, a harrowing account of his flight from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The number of missing [asylum] cases just last month is more than the 63,734 asylum applications received by the Immigration Courts during all of FY 2015."
A Vietnamese woman writes to us about the misconceptions many Americans have about immigrants, and indignities endured at the Northwest Processing Center.
"...we were instructed to keep digging what was clearly intended to be our own graves." M's story details her horrific experiences in Cameroon before escaping to the US - where she was immediately sent to an immigration detention center.