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The Harrowing Journey Home for Families Leaving Immigration Detention ( www.themarshallproject.org )

Last year, the Trump administration detained thousands of children like Amalia. Many were held in the detention center in Dilley, often for weeks or months at a time. Most of the people sent to the 2,400-bed facility were eventually deported to other countries. But 45% of them were released to await the outcomes of their cases ...

Before Minneapolis Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force ( www.themarshallproject.org )

Federal officers have fatally shot at least three other people in the last five months, according to news reports reviewed by The Marshall Project. In September, Silverio Villegas González, a father originally from Mexico who worked as a cook, was killed while reportedly trying to flee from officers in a Chicago suburb, WBEZ ...

Why No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Local Jails: From medical neglect to suicide, the lack of information on jail deaths can allow the same deadly problems to lead to more deaths. ( www.themarshallproject.org )

At least 46 people have died in Mississippi’s county jails since 2020, according to lawsuits, news reports and law enforcement records reviewed by The Marshall Project - Jackson. But those lost lives do not appear in any official statistics or records. ...

The Competing Visions to Fix the Country’s Juvenile Justice Crisis ( www.themarshallproject.org )

When 17-year-old David was put in isolation for fighting in juvenile detention in Tennessee, it made him want to fight even more. “I couldn’t do anything but do pushups and get mad and think about stuff. It makes you want to come out and put your hands on somebody,” the teen, who was using a pseudonym because he is a ...

‘Lost’ in Missouri Jail Cells - A backlog of defendants deemed mentally unfit for trial persists despite public policy changes to address the crisis ( www.themarshallproject.org )

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In ICE Detention, Rising Deaths and Neglect: ‘They Wouldn’t Really Do Anything’ ( www.themarshallproject.org )

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, a 39-year-old who had lived in California since childhood, died on Sunday, Sept. 21. Uribe, a former recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, was detained during an August raid on the carwash where he had worked for 15 years, and transferred to ICE’s Adelanto detention center ...