Tag: detention
Nationwide Protests Demand End to Family Separations
Over 100 protesters in Baltimore demonstrated against the detention of Marta Rodriguez, who faces deportation to Honduras. Councilman Zeke Cohen says the U.S. must take in migrants displaced as a result of its policies Visit…
What’s Being Done To Prevent Deaths in Detention Centers, Prisons?
Eddie Conway talks to ACLU Maryland attorney Sonia Kumar, Never Again Action organizer Hallie Berkson-Gold, and ICE Free New Jersey activist Jorge Torres. Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Rikers Island’s Deadliest Year with Olayemi Olurin | Rattling the Bars
Editor’s note: This interview was filmed on Dec. 1, 2022. A 19th person, Edgardo Mejia, died at Rikers on Sunday, Dec. 11. 19 people died on Rikers Island in 2022, making this the deadliest year…
How Maryland discriminates against women prisoners | Rattling the Bars
Jessup, Maryland is home to the state’s only women’s prison, the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women, commonly known as “The Cut”. For years, advocates fought for a women’s pre-release center, which would house prisoners eligible…
They were released from Guantanamo. But the horrors didn’t end | Rattling the Bars
The revelations of widespread torture of detainees at the illegal US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, rattled the American conscience during the Bush Jr. administration. Two decades later, detainments at Guantanamo continue, but the public…
