Judge Certifies Guatemalan Woman’s Class Action Against Trump Administration
The ACLU of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the administration after Lillian Calderon–a Guatemalan native–was detained after a marriage interview.
Civil Rights
Prison Medical Contractors Corizon Health & Corizon LLC Settle Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Corizon, like many private prison operators and contractors, has been the subject of vigorous litigation for years.
GEO Group Might Have to Pay Back Immigrant Detainees Made to Work for $1 Per Day
The GEO Group insists its facilities are being targeted because of President Trump’s politics.
SPLC Pushes Back Against Trump Administration’s ‘Turnback Policy’ for Asylum-Seekers
The Southern Poverty Law Center says the White House isn’t just manufacturing a border crisis but misinforming the public, too.
Attorneys for ‘El Chapo’ Say Drug Lord Needs A Better Cell
Guzman’s defense attorney claims her client has scarcely seen sunlight in two years.
Utah Woman Says Bus Driver Who Dragged 13-Year Old Boy Down the Street Was Motivated By Racism
Brenda Mayes says Davis School District ignored complaints from several parents before a bus driver nearly killed her son.
Protestors Arrested After Dressing a Statue with KKK Robes
Two protestors are arrested after placing a KKK robe on a Confederate statue.
Kansas Keeps Fining Prison Health Contractor Corizon To No Effect
Even after facing a flurry of lawsuits, analyses indicate that Kansas’s prison health contractor, Corizon, doesn’t meet state standards of care. According to the Associated Press and Kansas City Star, hundreds of documents were looked over in the analysis. Performance reviews ranging from July 2015 to December 2018 showed that inmates were regularly denied the
SoCal Branch of ACLU Sues Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to Stop Detainee Transfers
With cooperation between Orange County jails and I.C.E. about to end, the ACLU fears immigrants will be sent far from their families and lawyers.
Immigrant Advocates Sue A.G. Barr for Denying Asylum-Seekers Bond
Barr is trying to give I.C.E. and its affiliates exclusive authority to order immigrants’ release.