As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape and Even Suicide
Lydia Fu for ProPublica Illinois Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with ProPublica Illinois. One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as he waited to be released from a Chicago shelter for immigrant children. He was kept…
Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, I spent four months working undercover as a guard at a medium-security Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) with the aim of reporting on the conditions inside a private prison for Mother Jones. Shortly after I began, I was shown…
Mollie Tibbetts’ Father Calls on People to Stop Using Her Death to Promote Ideas She “Vehemently Opposed”
A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business in Iowa. Tibbets was found dead last month. Charlie Neibergall/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The father of Mollie Tibbetts is calling on politicians and pundits to stop using his daughter’s death…
White Supremacist Under Scrutiny for Robocalls Using Mollie Tibbetts’ Death to Spread Hate
A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business on August 21 in Brooklyn, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A neo-Nazi podcast host has come under scrutiny for a spate of racist robocalls in Iowa and Florida.…
The Trump Official Overseeing Migrant Girls’ Health Care Once Wrote He Couldn’t “Support Abortion for Any Reason”
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Lloyd’s anti-abortion crusade began when, as a young man, he found himself faced with a partner’s unexpected pregnancy. Many years later, Lloyd would take his battle to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, where, as its leader…
ICE Detains Man Driving His Pregnant Wife to the Hospital
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California man just wanted to stop for gas as he drove his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. Instead, Joel Arrona is now in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody, and a newborn baby is separated from his father. According to CBS2 News…