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TACOMA, Wash. -- President Joe Biden signed an executive order this week ending the federal use of private prisons, but the order does not include privately run immigration facilities, like the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. Formerly known as the Northwest Detention Center, the facility is run by GEO Group and is one of the largest in the country. ...

San Antonio ICE facilities have reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases Karly Williams FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they walk across the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley last year.  (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Eric Gay /Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of3 The South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, about an hours drive southwest of San Antonio, had the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases in the San Antonio region, with 292 confirmed cases as ...

For exposing COVID-19 outbreak, Black newspaper editor faces retaliation By Judy Greenspan posted on January 19, 2021 What happens when a federal prisoner who has just become the Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper is paroled to a halfway house run by GEO Group? That company is one of the largest managers of lockdown units and ICE detention centers in the U.S.  Malik Washington with his fiancee, and San Francisco Bay View Managing Editor, Nube Brown. Editor...

The Trump presidency catalyzed the Jewish community to participate in a wide range of political activism to challenge his administration’s policies. Across the country, Jews and Jewish organizations played key roles in the “resistance” movement around immigrant rights, health care, racial injustice, women’s reproductive freedom, and the upsurge of bigotry fostered by the president.

Good morning, it’s Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quote meant to be inspiring or elucidating. Today’s comes from a speech by Martin Luther King Jr., born this day in 1929. His address on Oct. 26, 1967, in Philadelphia wasn’t about civil rights per se, although he would talk on that subject at Saint Joseph’s University that same day and then deliver opening remarks at a “Stars for Freedom” event at the Spectrum featuring Harry Belafonte, Sidney Portier, a...

A Thibodaux teacher arrested by federal immigration agents last month has been released from custody, his attorney said.   Djibril Coulibaly, 50, who teaches French at W.S. Lafargue Elementary School in Thibodaux, was taken into custody Dec. 15 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and was transported to a detention center in Evangeline Parish to await deportation.  Following an outcry by supporters and a flurry of letters, emails to lawmakers, online petitions and media coverage,...

Thibodaux teacher Djibril Coulibaly was taken into custody by ICE agents and transported to a detention center. He now awaits deportation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — If — and that’s an extremely hypothetical if — David...

Tin Nguyen slept in on Christmas Eve 2018. It was a light sleep. Nguyen says at California State Prison in Lancaster you sleep light for your own safety. He heard his cell number, 144, prison number, 06, and last name called over the mic. His door popped open and he ran to the prison’s tower. “Are you sure?” he asked. A guard confirmed. Nguyen’s sentence, life without possibility of parole, had been commuted by Gov. Jerry Brown. Advertisement “I was so happy — on cloud nine that day...

Tin Nguyen slept in on Christmas Eve 2018. It was a light sleep. Nguyen says at California State Prison in Lancaster you sleep light for your own safety. He heard his cell number, 144, prison number, 06, and last name called over the mic. His door popped open and he ran to the prison’s tower. “Are you sure?” he asked to double-check that he had been summoned. A guard confirmed. Nguyen’s sentence, life without possibility of parole, had been commuted by Gov. Jerry Brown. “I was so happ...