Interview With Azadeh Shahshahani: Georgia Immigrant Detention and the U.S. Deportation Machine
Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola welcome Azadeh Shahshahani, who is a legal and advocacy director for Project South. She joins the show to talk about a report she worked on called “Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers.” Shahshahani addresses how asylum seekers and immigrants are denied due
Immigrants In Georgia Detention Centers Put In Solitary For Hunger Strikes, Demanding Medical Treatment
Georgia immigrant detention centers frequently put asylum seekers and other migrants into solitary confinement as punishment for going on hunger strike.
Lawsuit May Serve As Template For Challenging Forced Immigrant Labor In Private Prisons
Class action lawsuit by pretrial immigrant detainees may force GEO Group and other private prison companies to move away from slave labor.
Teachers Protest Deportations, Detention Of Refugee Students At First Clinton And Obama Rally
Teachers and students were there to protest Obama’s record on deportations, and demand Clinton and Obama release refugee youth.
Immigration Officials Trick Central American Refugees Before Deportation
Immigration officials often do not provide any information about what is happening to them, or mislead them about the fact that they are being sent back.
Casa De Paz’s Sarah Jackson Helps Immigrants Regain Hope After Detention (VIDEO)
“Life in the detention center is very hopeless. You re in one room, your dorm, 24/7. You eat there, sleep there, there’s no access to going outside.”
ICE Claims There Is No Hunger Strike At Hutto Amid Escalating Retaliation
ICE continues to deny there is an inmate demonstration taking place at T. Don Hutto as hunger striker claim retaliation against them is intensifying.
ICE Punishes Immigrant Women On Hunger Strike With Isolation, Cold Cells
Guards at the Hutto Detention Center in Texas, are retaliating against immigrant detainees engaged in a hunger strike to protest their living conditions.
Immigrant Detainees’ Access to Bond Hearings Expanded by Appeals Court
A federal appeals court affirmed and expanded a prior ruling to grant immigrant detainees in the Ninth Circuit access to bond hearings every six months.
U.S. Immigration Prisons Lack Oversight, Re-Traumatize Refugees
Studies show families fleeing extreme violence in Central America are treated as criminals, not survivors, when detained in facilities without oversight.
