Applying an antiquated law, often with little evidence to go on, immigration judges must determine not whether or not someone is afraid to go back home, but whether their fear…
Far from the debate over immigration on the campaign trail, the reality of U.S. policy plays out in immigration courthouses, where lawyers can be hard to come by, detention without…
Statistics show the whether or not an immigrant is detained during their case, and whether or not they have a lawyer, have enormous bearing on outcomes in immigration court. New…
The courtrooms where immigration justice plays out in and near New York City are where overtaxed lawyers, desperate families and shackled inmates bear the human weight of a broken system.
City Limits contacted all 51 members of the City Council, the five borough presidents and the three citywide officials to ask whether they support closing Rikers.
The jury is still out on whether reforms – segregating the most violent inmates, a crackdown on smuggling, faster use-of-force investigations – will be effective.
George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island, seen from the Bronx.
The Vernon C. Bain Center, a jail barge docked off the South Bronx.
The Brooklyn House of Detention. In the face…
The key question might not be whether the city should live without Rikers, or how it would do so, but whether it has the political will to finish the transformation…
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