A lawsuit alleges that New York is keeping children in solitary confinement cells without toilets for days or weeks at a time: nysfocus.com/2026/01/09/o...

Horseshit

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

NEW: The one and only SCOTUS opinion today is Bowe v. U.S., a habeas case. The 5-4 decision by Sotomayor vacates the Eleventh Circuit's decision against Michael Bowe and allows his challenge to continue. Gorsuch wrote the dissent, w Thomas, Alito, & Barrett. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

Aka just a regular jail that provides inadequate treatment to the detained individuals while claiming to help them even though they're just letting them languish. Oh the irony of Governor Wes Moore's slogan "leave no one behind."

If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

The Minneapolis neighborhood where federal immigration officers shot and killed a woman on Wednesday is less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by the police in 2020.

Reminder: The Minneapolis shooting is not the only ICE-involved violence in recent memory.

New: Unannounced inspections of the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center last year revealed a persistent rodent infestation, malfunctioning air conditioning, and a paraplegic child housed in the infirmary who was left sitting in his own waste. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

NEW: Maryland’s prison system is becoming increasingly deadly, with the highest homicide rate in recent history despite a shrinking population of incarcerated people. Experts point to staff shortages and an infusion of contraband drugs. Read more: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The Marshall Project analyzed ICE data through the middle of October, the most current detailed records publicly available. People ICE arrested during that time were later detained in 13 states, at county jails, privately run detention centers and a rapidly constructed facility on a military base.

The Marshall Project is exploring all the ways menopause and perimenopause affect women behind bars. If you are a women’s health expert, formerly incarcerated, provide healthcare to people in prison, or have a loved one going through menopause behind bars — we want to hear from you.

NEW: ICE has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a company that makes “AI agents” to rapidly track down targets. AI Solutions 87 did not respond to a request for comment on how its AI agents work.

NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Lawyers for a group of prisoners whose death sentences were commuted by President Biden allege that the Trump administration is now seeking to imprison them “in the most oppressive conditions in the entire federal prison system.”

During an immigration crackdown in Maryland this fall, two out of every three people arrested by ICE agents had no criminal history, a @thebaltimorebanner.com analysis found. ICE pushed back, calling the data "simply wrong" but refusing to say what was inaccurate. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

When someone with a history of addiction does something really bad (whether murder or RFK Jr nonsense), can we please not vilify addiction overall?

In a Mississippi prison, a broken arm turned into an amputation. In a Minnesota jail, a man showing classic stroke symptoms was allegedly ignored until he collapsed and died. In New York, a man detained by immigration officials temporarily lost the ability to walk due to untreated infections.

The Supreme Court has recognized that -executing intellectually disabled people is unconstitutional -intellectual disability is a condition, not a number Yet Alabama argued in Hamm v. Smith that states should be able to use a 70 IQ as a numerical can-kill point ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/hamm-...

On Tuesday, Pritzker signed a bill that makes it easier for Illinois residents to sue federal immigration agents for up to $10,000 if they believe their rights have been violated, and also restricts those agents from enforcement outside courthouses. trib.al/RT7gIiN

“My mind disconnected from my experience as I was instructed to put my unwashed fingers in my mouth, pull my body apart, bend, bounce & hop.” In my 20 years of incarceration, I’ve been strip-searched 500+ times. Each was an act of humiliation & sexual violence, writes Carla J. Simmons in an op-ed.

New must-read from @candicenorwood.bsky.social — how periods in prison become a trap. Incarcerated women and trans people are forced to choose between maintaining their dignity and health — or facing the penalties.

The Department of Justice plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.

We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“The quality of products provided or available for purchase is usually extremely poor — so poor that they do not fulfill their intended function... People have to use six pads at a time to prevent leakage, but they have strict limits on how many they are allowed.”

The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape

For those counting along at home, this is the second breaking story of the day about maintenance troubles at a state corrections department facility.

Maryland's increasingly violent prisons are relying more heavily on isolation to manage the short-staffed, aging facilities. In one year, nearly 4 out of every 10 prisoners did a stint in confinement. State recently paid $185K to a man who was in for almost a year. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Placed in solitary confinement for more than 300 days, Samuel Smalls remembers looking out of his window and realizing the dogs being walked by fellow prisoners outside enjoyed more freedom than he did. “Confined to a cell all day like that, it’s dehumanizing,” said Smalls.

Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.

ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.

NEW: Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

So the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was just picked up by ICE.

A growing chorus of attorneys, advocates and members of law enforcement are warning that the terror that has taken hold in immigrant communities is causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation and separation from their families.

Messenger: Lawsuit aims to fix the 'horrific' mental health crisis in Missouri jails: www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Jazmine Mapes remembers one cold and wet November morning in 2023, when Los Angeles city workers demanded that she and about 65 others leave the tents they’d been living in across the street from City Hall. “I was covered in ashes and dirt,” she said. She was also pregnant.

Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.

Bear in mind also that this is just snapshot data, the number of people in these facilities on any given date. If this was the total number of people who had cycled through these facilities, the arrows would be even higher.

A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release. This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...

Thousands and thousands of people are in this situation; giving up their cases and accepting deportation because they can't bear being in jail any longer. In many ways, that is a major point of detention.

New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE. "Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

‼️UPDATE: Citing reporting by Kourosh Ziabari & @meghnadbose.bsky.social last month in October, the National Iranian American Council announced they filed a lawsuit against ICE for withholding documents on the wrongful, targeted detentions & deportations of Iranians. Read their original story here: