Subjects Archives: Incarceration

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies raided multiple homes in Michigan, reportedly targeting a number of student activists connected to Gaza solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.

The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.

A federal judge has blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and Columbia University protest organizer, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials.

Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, was targeted by pro-Israel groups for co-authoring an op-ed calling for Tufts to divest from Israel

Authorities arrested and are attempting to deport Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States and prominent figure in last year’s Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment.

Migrants in Salvadoran prisons are separated from their families and lack adequate and timely protections for their defense.

Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”

In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.

Venezuelan detainees are currently being held in the overseas camp and deprived of contact with relatives or legal counsel.

Donald Trump’s expansion of migrant detention in Guantánamo Bay follows years of torture. Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have always fought for their land to be freed from U.S. imperialism.

And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex.

Gitmo, Yesterday, Today… and Tomorrow

The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released.

The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.

Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.