Month: September 2019

Border detention facilities for children are a disaster

  • Lovisa Stannow
  • August 21, 2019
  • Houston Chronicle

Last month, a California woman spoke to reporters about a horrific interaction she had with a Border Patrol agent. The agent worked at the Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas, where the woman’s 12-year-old son was being held. The Clint facility was already in the news, following lawyers’ accounts of children detained there

Incarcerated women tell NGO they are desperate for help

  • Unathi Mahlati and Prince Nare
  • August 30, 2019
  • GroundUp

“Please help us!” This plea from an incarcerated woman — said to me and my colleague at Just Detention International-South Africa (JDI-SA) during a Women’s Month event at a facility in Limpopo on 23 August — summarises the sense of desperation among incarcerated women we have spoken with. So it was disappointing that this Women’s

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