Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
A State Department report criticized the practice of separating migrant children from their parents, saying kids in detention facilities face a higher risk of psychological trauma. The finding, reports POLITICO, was included in the agency’s Trafficking in Persons Report, released Thursday. It follows moves by the administration and courts to curb the practice, including a
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is directing a state agency to investigate pregnancy discrimination at Wal-Mart, Merck, Novartis and Glencore. Cuomo, reports The New York Times, told reporters that the Division of Human Rights will lead the investigation and run advertisements on the city’s subways. The advertisements will provide information and a hotline number that
A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to reunite families separated under President Donald Trump’s stringent immigration policy. “This situation has reached a crisis level,” wrote U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in an emergency order. “There is no genuine dispute that the Government was not prepared to accommodate the mass influx of separated children […]
A lawsuit accuses the North Carolina Department of Public Safety of systematically keeping prison guards from receiving raises. Filed Monday, the allegations focus specifically on the DPS and North Carolina’s prison system. The News Observer claims that the ‘crux of the lawsuit is a claim that DPS officials ordered prison supervisors to issue unnecessary or
President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to pass an immigration bill met stiff resistance from the House of Representatives, which toppled the attempt by an overwhelming majority. Defeated 121-301, the failure highlights divisions within the Republicans own ranks. While every liberal in the House opposed the measure, so too did many conservatives. Roughly half the chamber’s
The Supreme Court dealt a sharp blow to organized labor on Wednesday. In a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled that government workers who turn down union membership can’t have their pay docked to fund collective bargaining. Writing for the conservative-led majority, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. opined that wage deductions pose a constitutional violation. “We conclude
Last Friday, a judge found the Arizona Department of Corrections and its administrators in civil contempt of court for failing to meet the conditions of a 2014 settlement concerning the quality of healthcare in state prisons. Arizona DOC director Charles Ryan and medical director Richard Pratt were both named in the ruling, which will emplace
In a much-awaited Tuesday decision, the Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The justices split primarily along party lines, voting 5-4 to affirm the president’s power to curb immigration in the interest of national security. The latest version of the ban—which was issued several times before being sent to the Supreme Court—places travel
A trio of teenagers is suing a Florida sheriff for locking them in solitary confinement without cause and before even being put on trial. Filed on behalf of the teenagers by the Human Rights Defense Center on Thursday, the suit names Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and the county school district as defendants. Each
The parents of 12-year old Mallory Grossman, who committed suicide in June 2017, are filing a lawsuit against New Jersey’s Rockaway Township, its school district and educational administrators. “One year ago, on June 14, sixth-grader Mallory Grossman, who attended Copeland Middle School in Rockaway [died by suicide] and she did so after being relentlessly bullied