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April 6, 2022... Critics of Biden’s plan point out that Haitians who endured the assassination of their president in July of 2021 and a deadly earthquake one month later have been the victim of racist U.S...
August 15, 2023...Angelo Guisado, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights who is part of the legal team filing the lawsuit, points out that migrants must have an expensive smartphone to install the...
May 16, 2024"Six incarcerated people in the state of Alabama have filed a lawsuit against their governor and the Commissioner of Corrections. Alabama’s prison system is the most overcrowded in the country, where...
Byrd v. Goord is a civil rights case that challenged the collect-call only telephone service for prison inmates operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS). On March 21...
Updated: October 20, 2007
March 2007The New York State Court of appeals will allow a lawsuit filed by CCR to proceed, which challenges the constitutionality of the NYSDOCS prison telephone contract.
January 2007Governor Eliot Spitzer says excessive telephone charges paid by the families of state inmates will be reduced by April to the cost of regular calls.
September 28, 2017Trump’s immigration policies have mucked up a lot of lives. In this episode, SSSS producer Megan Detrie shares some stories from her reporting in Michigan with the Iraqi Christian community...
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