Mortality in US immigration detention centers has skyrocketed to its highest level in more than two decades. The increase comes amid an anti-immigrant offensive promoted by President Trump. Since his return to the White House, the number of ICE detainees has increased from about 39,000 to more than 70,000. The number of detainees increased by 84% in the last year.
The high-speed demolition of Eric Swalwell is celebrated as appropriate “accountability” but removing due process isn’t justice. Narrated by Jared Moore, art by Daniel Medina, and text published 04/16/26. Listen to subscriber-only audio in your podcast app.
Barry Cozart, 39, died at Rikers on March 25. John Price, 49, died a few days later. Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office in January. He has kept the jail complex in the news. On April 7 he announced the opening of a 104-bed health facility to house current Rikers detainees with serious medical needs.
It's Palestinian Prisoner's Day. There are popular activities in support of prisoners in the occupation prisons. People gather to stage a protest against Israel’s death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees within the "Palestinian Prisoners' Day" in Gaza City, Gaza.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement reported the death of a detainee for the 17th time so far in 2026. On April 12, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old Cuban man, died in what has been labeled a suicide. The death at a Miami detention facility is still under investigation. Earlier in April, a Mexican man died in California’s Adelanto ICE facility. Public Counsel is suing The GEO Group, which operates private prisons for agencies including ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service. The company made a reported $254 million profit from its dealings with the government.
Virginia DOC Hosts First TEDx Event at Women’s Correctional Facility. The event featured more than 40 speakers at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Va. It was organized by the Virginia Department of Corrections and Proximity for Justice.
Scott Trust’s Legacies of Enslavement programme is launching a 10-year restorative justice plan today. In 2023, the Guardian published research revealing its founders’ connections to transatlantic enslavement in the Americas, particularly in the south-eastern US and Jamaica.
In 2020, when he was nearing the end of his 10-year prison sentence, he was looking for a job. He is on the sex offender registry. He was working for TRICOR, the correctional industries job training program that brags about how they reduce recidivism, so he bugged their reentry staff. They gave him a list of "felony-friendly" employers. He applied to Goodwill stores that fell in the areas where he was allowed to work. He got two job offers that were revoked once the hiring managers got the results of the background check. Finally, he got a manager position at a third location, but it didn't work out
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Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all people detained for political reasons in Cuba and an end to the repression of those exercising their human rights. The organization has documented threats, surveillance, arbitrary detentions and pressure against young people who use social media to question the authorities from within Cuba.