Politics
Locking Up Immigrants
By way of 95-year-old Robert M.
It is not difficult to identify the states with the most citizens who have been left out of America’s abundance.
Yesterday, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project released a new call to action to “Demand Safer Housing for Trans People in New York State Prisons.”
When our soldiers who had fought in the civil war in Vietnam came back home, many of them were treated shamefully.
Many times, on this site and elsewhere, we have referred to supermax prisons and solitary confinement units as “America’s domestic black sites“ — places where terrible suffering, even torture, take place on a daily basis, out of site of the public, the press, and in some cases the government’s own meager oversight.