Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state’s mandatory punishment of life without parole for felony murder, ruling that it violates the state’s constitutional prohibition against “cruel punishment.” theappeal.org/pennsylvania...

"Disability Rights Pennsylvania filed suit against the state's prison system, alleging that the agency provides dangerously inadequate medical care for people with Type 1 diabetes and punishes them for their disease." #Pennsylvania #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Courts

"I hear ... the laughter of children and the sounds of other families, reminding me of what I've lost. Sometimes I wish I could wake up and find myself with my family, even for just a moment, to feel that warmth and celebration with my loved ones again."

Aramark is the largest provider of prison food in the country. A lawsuit filed by prisoner in West Virginia alleges that the company intentionally serves inedible meals to drive up sales of expensive snacks. theappeal.org/aramark-west...

West Virginia prisoners allege that Aramark serves inedible food, such as “ultra-processed patties made from an indiscernible meat, to drive them to the company's food-for-purchase programs. In fiscal year 2025, Aramark brought in $18.5 billion dollars in revenue. theappeal.org/aramark-west...

Thank you to @katmabu.bsky.social and the thousands of campaign volunteers/workers for inspiring all of us. Abolish ICE. Free Palestine. Smash capitalism. (not necessarily in that order)

“My ‘crime’ is leaving my country, Honduras, to be able to give a better life to my children and my parents,” Mary wrote. Read more at my Substack: briandolinar.substack.com/p/the-limits...

As ICE seeks to turn commercial warehouses across the country into massive detention centers, communities are fighting back, @bdolinar.bsky.social reports: theappeal.org/ice-wants-to...

Five years ago, @elizabethweill.bsky.social and I did a deep dive for @nysfocus.bsky.social on the many irregularities in the case against Anthony Sims. Now, 28 years after his conviction, he's finally getting a new trial! hellgatenyc.com/after-28-yea...

"[G]uessing games." "One nurse told Cunningham he had heartburn. Another said he had a stomach virus." "He had appendicitis." "[Y]ou incarcerate us, and then you just say, 'Okay, he's a criminal, he doesn't matter, he can die.'" #Pennsylvania #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

Willie Cunningham nearly died after his appendix burst while he was incarcerated in Pennsylvania's York County Prison. Nurses working for the jail's for-profit healthcare provider told him he just had heartburn, @elizabethweill.bsky.social reports. theappeal.org/york-county-...

Willie Cunningham was detained at York County Prison when he began to experience excruciating abdominal pain. A nurse told him he had heartburn. It was appendicitis. “I believed in these people,” he told me. “I didn’t know I was dying.” theappeal.org/york-county-...

In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks. But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

I'm incredibly honored that Rep. Rashida Tlaib highlighted my reporting on CoreCivic and GEO Group in today's congressional hearing on ICE. theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...

I’ve been working on a children’s book about kids who stage a spontaneous sit-in in the principal’s office after they’re told they can’t touch the snow at recess. I’m looking for a publisher/agent/illustrator/guidance for how to bring this story to life. Also, abolish ICE + free Palestine. 💕

I am so disgusted that my son’s public school district in Highland Park, NJ suspended students who participated in an anti-ICE walkout where the mayor and school superintendent were in attendance. If any reporters want to cover this, please reply below or DM me.

On CoreCivic's quarterly earnings call, one caller asked: “Would you be willing to opine on the recent headlines related to the Minnesota pullback that Homan announced, and possibly investors misinterpreting that as a national mandate change?” theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...

In earnings calls earlier today, investors in GEO Group and CoreCivic criticized ICE. Their chief complaint? ICE's detained population, despite hitting record highs, still isn't large enough. @elizabeth.weill.bsky.social has more: theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...

so disgusting and reprehensible. i've been reporting on a CoreCivic prison in their home state of TN (just a regular old prison) and these people are such a special kind of awful

From today's CoreCivic earnings call: “One of the big questions, I think, concerns for investors has been the pace of detention by ICE, that it's been below what investors thought it was going to be,” one caller said. “I think people thought we'd be at that 100,000 level.”

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

Have your representatives taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts? #AbolishICE

That’s a good question.

ICE pursued school buses, intruded on campuses, and abducted students in MN and beyond. “Our classrooms are sacred spaces… This government is defiling them.” Read this new story by Lily Seltz on Trump’s ICE abducting kids. #AbolishICE #children

We're planning to expand the database to include more ICE profiteers' donations to congress. We'd love to hear your suggestions about what companies we should include! Feel free to comment below or DM me. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

For those who need some inspiration today, @lexmcmenamin.com's story on the brave teens fighting back against ICE is a must-read.

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

In a Minnesota town, Emily, a nurse who treats many immigrant patients, can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer. The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:

This is unconscionable. But some of it is familiar. When I started as a public defender more than 10 years ago, NYPD and Corrections Officers also used the term "bodies" to refer to the people in their custody. It is both small and huge that I now rarely hear that. We demanded better.

"Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and $58,000 to Democratic congressmembers." "Find out if your congressional representatives are among the recipients." #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....

#Tennessee GOP Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty collectively received a total of $22,500 from CoreCivic, one of largest private prison companies contracting with ICE. Per database info just published by @theappeal.org & @inthesetimes.com theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...

Private prison $$$ doesn’t just follow ICE’s detention boom — it helps build it. This investigation tracks donations from CoreCivic and GEO Group to sitting United States Congress members and lets you check your reps. @elizabethweill.bsky.social & @ethanscorey.bsky.social report w/ @theappeal.org

i know @wrigleyfield.bsky.social and you can trust her. they still need $1265, let’s go bluesky

@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who take money from GEO Group + CoreCivic. Find out if your reps have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. Published in @theappeal.org + @inthesetimes.com. theappeal.org/ice-cold-cas...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

So kids have to carry around their birth certificates and passports in the US now? This is so depraved.

In one of his final moves before leaving office today, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed bills aimed at protecting immigrants out of fear it would invite legal challenges from the Trump admin. Immigrant advocates decried the decision: "ICE is already here, kidnapping people." boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...

Everett Palmer, Jr., died after he was strapped to a restraint chair in York County's jail in 2018. A grand jury made recommendations to prevent similar deaths. Instead of implementing them, York County used the chair 1,295 times—more often any other jail in PA. theappeal.org/york-county-...

Pennsylvania's York County Prison used restraint chairs a total of 1,295 times from 2018 through 2024—more than any other jail in the state. In the last ten years, at least two people have died at YCP after being strapped in restraint chairs. New for @theappeal.org. theappeal.org/york-county-...

My latest for @truthout.org (co-published with @theappeal.org ) truthout.org/articles/ice...

A record number of people died in ICE detention last year, @mludwig.bsky.social reports for @truthout.org Six more people have died during the first three weeks of 2026 alone. theappeal.org/ice-deaths-d...

NEW FROM ME: for @theappeal.org. After a year of: ✅ Sifting through more than 200 pages of records. ✅ Sifting through more than 3,000 court document searches. ✅ Interviewing many sources. ✅ And filing many public records requests. My story is finally published today. theappeal.org/pepper-spray...

In February 2021, seven men sat down to pray in a Missouri prison. Within minutes, guards put them in shackles and covered them in pepper spray. The incident highlights the dangers Muslims face practicing their religion in prison, @khawlanakua.bsky.social reports. theappeal.org/pepper-spray...

The US has given Israel $352 billion since its founding. After uncovering over $7 billion in previously unreported funds, this is the most accurate tally of US aid to Israel to date: www.stephensemler.com/p/how-much-a...

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

"We can't expect the same police force that violently repressed the Black Lives Matter movement, brutally repressed the pro-Palestine movement, and ... continues to enact violence in our communities to be an ally in the fight against ICE."