A watchdog report released Thursday alleges that federal immigration officials face considerable pressure to maintain "lockup quotas" that are worked into deals with private contractors at certain...
Guaranteed payments to contractors at federal detention centers have helped to create a quota system for immigration enforcement, according to a report released Thursday by advocates for detainees...
In the summer of 2014, beginning on July 8, Israel launched a 50 day military operation against Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge. People around the world were horrified by the images of carnage...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 1, 2015. We’ll discuss secret detention and torture, in fiction and reality. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be joined by author Ellen Meeropol...
June 12, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys for four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become...
So what happens when the FBI is given full discretion to use one of the many ever-expanding government watchlists to coerce law-abiding people into spying in their communities? They use it, of course...
June 13, 2015, New York – In response to the vote today by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for its...
With mounting claims of abuse and misconduct, what are some of the proposed policies for fixing Rikers Island and other prisons throughout the U.S.? Ari Melber talks to Paul Prestia, Vince Warren,...
Isaiah Pickens, Jamira Burley, Purvi Shah, Marc Steiner and Jamelle Bouie join to discuss the reaction to the video this week that showed an altercation between police and teens in McKinney, Texas.
