Amidst mounting public pressure for North Jersey Counties to end their contractual relationships with ICE, the agency has been moving detainees at its whim.
Police and Prisons, What Are They Good For?
Last summer’s protests put police and prison abolition on the progressive agenda. Yet it remains difficult to imagine a…
Family vows to file a wrongful death lawsuit, demonstrators demand infamous jail be closed.
Queens DA Faces Growing Pressure to Throw Out Prakash Churaman Charges
Latest court hearing draws largest crowd of supporters to date.
Essex County Drops ICE Amid Growing Public Pressure
However, County commissioners will replace ICE revenue by housing inmates from neighboring Union County.
Shocking accounts from ICE detainees, local political corruption and the fight against it.
Did the Brooklyn DA’s office get Ronnie Wright’s case Really Wrong?
Another case tainted by prosecutors’ decision to conceal potentially exculpatory evidence.
Interview: An ICE Detainee Is Released After Month-Long Hunger Strike
Bonilla left Honduras to save his life. Then he put his life on the line in order to not be sent back.
Prakash Churaman’s first murder conviction was overturned. Now, he’s risking everything on a second trial before the same Queens prosecutor-turned-judge who railroaded him before.
Jaywalking Charge Leaves Bronx Resident on the Brink of Deportation
Former DACA recipient Javier Castillo Maradiaga has lived in the U.S. since he was 7. Three times in the past week it appeared ICE would deport him. His family and lawyers still aren’t sure he is out of danger.
Please give today to the Indypendent. It’s the generosity of readers like you who make all our work possible.