Brian Dolinar
@bdolinar.bsky.social
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Abolition journalist, educator, scholar of the Depression era.
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Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration | Brian Dolinar | Substack
A newsletter about my investigations into prisons, jails, and police. Here I'll share the stories and backstories behind my journalism. Click to read Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration, by B...
https://briandolinar.substack.com/
about 1 year ago
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My latest for Truthout on local organizers resisting ICE
#chingalamigra
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19 days ago
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Watch a four-minute video of our AT&T rally in Champaign
#AbolishICE
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Crushing ICE: Champaign-Urbana Shuts Down AT&T For A Day
Champaign-Urbana participated in a statewide protest on Sunday, November 16, to expose AT&T which is providing the digital infrastructure for Trump’s deportation machine.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/crushing-ice-champaign-urbana-shuts
about 1 month ago
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My write up on Julio Cucul-Bol's sentencing, political pawns, and cats. BD
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Guatemalan Man at the Center of Trump’s “Midway Blitz” Sentenced
A 30-year sentence for Julio Cucul-Bol but pro-Trump father says it’s not enough
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/guatemalan-man-at-the-center-of-trumps
2 months ago
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Going to the courthouse is always a learning experience. Read about my friend Shonda who was in court in Cook County this week. BD
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Going to Court for Freedom
My first trip to the Cook County Criminal Courts building
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/going-to-court-for-freedom
3 months ago
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Through a FOIA request, I obtained 29 immigration detainers sent to the Champaign County jail. Read more at my Substack. BD
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Wanted: Immigration Detainers Sent to the Champaign County jail
A records requests produced a list of 29 local immigrants under the threat of arrest.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/wanted-immigration-detainers-sent
3 months ago
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Read immigrant stories unique to those living in Champaign-Urbana. Thanks to my neighbor Greg Springer for sharing. BD
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Stories from the C-U Immigrant Community
Collected by my neighbor Greg Springer, I'm publishing the stories here.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/stories-from-the-c-u-immigrant-community
3 months ago
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Trump's "Midway Blitz is connected to my hometown Urbana, and some more updates at my recent Substack. BD
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Survival and Resilience
Some updates of local immigration defense work
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/survival-and-resilience
4 months ago
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I went on a road trip to find my lost great-uncle who died in the coal mines of SE Kansas. Read more at my Substack! BD
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Digging Up the History of My Immigrant Family
The search for my great-uncle who died in the coal mines of Southeast Kansas.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/digging-up-the-history-of-my-immigrant
4 months ago
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Read the new issue of Stateville Speaks! BD
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Stateville Speaks on Fighting Fascism
We asked those on the inside about how to resist the growing repression.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/stateville-speaks-on-fighting-fascism
4 months ago
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Check out my article mapping ICE detention & resistance in the Midwest for
@truthout.org
@silkys13.bsky.social
#AbolishICE
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A Fight Is Brewing in the Midwest Over Immigrant Mass Detention
As ICE expands its presence across the Midwest, activists fight the reopening of private prisons to jail migrants.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-fight-is-brewing-in-the-midwest-over-immigrant-mass-detention/
5 months ago
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ICE picked up a roofing crew last week in Urbana. Here's what I was able to find out
#AbolishICE
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ICE Strikes in East Urbana
Roofing crew disappeared with barely a trace
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/ice-strikes-in-east-urbana
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Read my latest Substack! BD
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Abolish ICE and Unbuilding Walls
What I've been doing when I'm not playing Soccer Dad
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/abolish-ice-and-unbuilding-walls
7 months ago
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Those of us on the right side of history must say no deportations no matter what
#abolition
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Fish In A Barrel: Four Feds Arrest Two Men at Traffic Court
ICE arrests resume at the courthouse
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/fish-in-a-barrel-four-feds-arrest
9 months ago
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The back story to my Cellebrite article. And some reflections on Urbana's election yesterday. BD
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Cellebrite and Celebrations
Urbana votes for police accountability
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/cellebrite-and-celebrations
10 months ago
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My latest w/ Tara Goodarzi
#freepalestine
#stoppolicespying
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10 months ago
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This week I confirmed ICE was in CU. Sign up for my Substack for more reports. BD
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Trump's ICE Agents Arrest Garbage Worker in CU
ICE has arrived in town, as I confirm in this story.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-agents-arrest-garbage
11 months ago
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Where's Waldo? Read more at my Substack, "Sentences." BD
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Look At All These Rumors: ICE Everywhere and Nowhere
Threats of ICE raids have yet to materialize.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/look-at-all-these-rumors-ice-everywhere
11 months ago
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ICYMI - my update on the 1st Amend. hearing for Yafa Issa, U of Illinois student facing mob action charges. Judge Webber will give his ruling on Friday, Jan. 24, at 3:30pm in Courtroom A.
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Free Speech Hearing for Palestinian Student Facing Mob Action Charges
Yafa Issa, 18-year-old leader in UIUC Students for Justice in Palestine, takes the stand.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/free-speech-hearing-for-palestinian
11 months ago
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"According to longtime activist and community journalist Brian Dolinar, a previous Urbana police chief helped him confirm whether a deportation had taken place, and he and other advocates would let family members know."
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Champaign-Urbana police departments won't work with ICE as per state law - IPM Newsroom
Local police chiefs in Champaign-Urbana say they won't be collaborating with federal immigration agents.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-urbana-police-departments-wont-work-with-ice-as-per-state-law/
11 months ago
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A majority of the people in the courtroom were from the local Muslim community. Watching the prosecutor try to get the 18-year-old young woman indict herself on the stand, as a courtroom of Muslim friends and family members looked on, was bad optics.
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Free Speech Hearing for Palestinian Student Facing Mob Action Charges
Yafa Issa, 18-year-old leader in UIUC Students for Justice in Palestine, takes the stand.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/free-speech-hearing-for-palestinian
12 months ago
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Champaign County has had three people die at the jail in the last three years. I found out about the latest death in a state report. But what's the point of having state reports, if nobody is reporting about them?! Read more at my Substack.
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Support Sentences: Reporting What Happens Behind Closed Cell Doors
George Christopher found dead in Champaign County jail after suffering a stroke
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/support-sentences-reporting-what
about 1 year ago
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“As Muslims, that’s a really important issue for our community,” Sana Saboowala said in an interview. “Since 9/11, Muslim communities have been policed all over the nation, and a lot of the surveillance laws that have been put in place on the national level have been targeting Muslims."
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Urbana City Council tables measure that would require approval for police surveillance technology - IPM Newsroom
Officials in Urbana have tabled an ordinance that would require the city’s police department to seek approval before purchasing and using surveillance technology, including license plate readers, faci...
https://ipmnewsroom.org/urbana-city-council-tables-measure-that-would-require-approval-for-police-surveillance-technology/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHPAedleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQpCL0UGtUc8L30JH-2wAh5KKehUPjNhrZ1u6N00AprQsKaDkMQRUzXyVg_aem_mXgjHuoTwandjmU69U_jhg
about 1 year ago
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Read about the new issue of Stateville Speaks on my Substack! Happy to be working on this 20 year prison publication with
@mayaschenwar.bsky.social
and others! BD
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Stateville Speaks on So-Called “Closure” of Illinois Prisons
This 20-year prison publication showcases voices from the inside.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/stateville-speaks-on-so-called-closure
about 1 year ago
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Thanks
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for coving the mob action charges. BD
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about 1 year ago
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A personal story about digging up my family history. BD
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Coming Home: My Summer Trip to Slovenia
The journey to find my grandpa’s favorite dessert.
https://briandolinar.substack.com/p/coming-home-my-summer-trip-to-slovenia
about 1 year ago
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Silky Shah
about 1 year ago
New story about the expansion of detention in New Jersey. Despite laws passed to end detention, the Biden administration and private prison contractors have been intervening to reopen a shuttered jail, Delaney Hall.
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New Immigration Detention Center Set to Open in New Jersey
With bids now open for a facility in Newark, immigrant rights groups are voicing concerns.
https://documentedny.com/2024/11/20/ice-detention-new-jersey-deportation-trump/#:~:text=“There’s%20been%20a%20long%2Dstanding%20fight%20to%20get%20rid%20of%20immigration%20detention%20altogether%2C%20so%20it’s%20incredibly%20disappointing%20that%20the%20Biden%20administration
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about 1 year ago
NEW w/
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: Sean Grayson, charged with murdering Sonya Massey, committed misconduct at prior jobs that could have stopped him from being rehired. In one case, drug charges were just dropped—after the defendant, Chelsey Lowe, was already convicted.
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Sean Grayson, who killed Sonya Massey, committed misconduct at prior jobs. Another one of his cases just got dropped - IPM Newsroom
Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, who killed Sonya Massey, was accused of misconduct while employed at Central Illinois police departments. Some whose complaints were disregarded a...
https://ipmnewsroom.org/sean-grayson-sonya-massey-dropped-case-logan/
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Follow all the amazing writers at
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about 1 year ago
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Detention Watch Network
about 1 year ago
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executive director at DWN on
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speak on the recent history of mass deportations under the Obama administration and what to expect with Trump’s mass deportation and immigration detention agenda.
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Sign the letter to stop mail digitization in Illinois prisons. BD
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Tell Your Legislators to Oppose Mail Scanning in the IDOC
Mail is a meaningful, tangible connection with the outside world for people who are incarcerated. Letters, cards, drawings, and photographs sent in the mail are cherished forms of communication for pe...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-legislators-to-oppose-mail-scanning-in-the-idoc?source=direct_link&
about 1 year ago
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Illinois is keeping up with Alabama ($400 million) and Indiana ($1.2 million) in building two new prisons ($900 million)
#decarceration
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Jail and Prison Populations Have Decreased Since 2019—but Continued…
The number of people held in jails and prisons has fallen by approximately 250,000 over the past five years, thanks in part to dramatic drops in the incarcerated population during the COVID pandemic. ...
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X is for Malcolm X - "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." BD
about 1 year ago
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Writing is fighting! Sign up for my Substack "Sentences" to follow my abolition journalism. BD
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Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration | Brian Dolinar | Substack
A newsletter about my investigations into prisons, jails, and police. Here I'll share the stories and backstories behind my journalism. Click to read Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration, by B...
https://briandolinar.substack.com/
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