WASHINGTON ― Human rights advocates spent years fighting for even small improvements to the system that detains men, women and children waiting to be either deported or released back into the U.S. Now they fear the progress they have made could disappear under President Donald Trump, who has promised harsher treatment of undocumented immigrants. “This
A complaint issued by CIVIC charges that the DHS Office of Inspector General failed to investigate more than 97 percent of reports of sexual abuse from people in immigration detention over a two-year period. Douglas Menjivar says the first time he was raped in 2013, he didn’t report the assault. His alleged attacker, a fellow
In 2003, Congress—led by current attorney general Jeff Sessions—passed a law to eliminate sexual assault in America’s jails and prisons. Is it working? One stormy July morning in 2013, 17-year-old R.W.* awoke to use the bathroom and found himself stuck in the throes of an American nightmare. Then an inmate at the Sumter Correctional Institution in
-Investigation found 497 officers were accused of misconduct between 2013 and 2015 including abuse of detainees, falling asleep and being drunk on the job -An agent was suspended for trying to use his government-issued Blackberry to solicit a prostitute in Bangkok, Thailand -Two guards were reprimanded after they were discovered in a sexual relationship
Even though he just garnered a career-best $11.5 million jury award, veteran personal injury lawyer Tom Weidner says he wasn’t in the mood to pop the champagne corks. “Professionally, it was very satisfying and it was a great team effort,” said Weidner, a partner at Eckberg Lammers in Stillwater. “But it’s such a sad story,