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Erica Bryant

Erica Bryant

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A Blueprint for Resistance: How Residents and Local Governments Are Shutting Down ICE Detention in Warehouses

Through zoning ordinances and public pressure, localities fight plans to treat immigrants like packages. Their successes can offer a blueprint for broader resistance.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons has stated his horrific goal of building a deportation system that treats people like packages; “Like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings,” he said last year. To advance this dehumanizing vision, the Trump administration aims to acquire more than 20 warehouses to imprison p ...

A Blueprint for Resistance: How Residents and Local Governments Are Shutting Down ICE Detention in Warehouses

Tracking Deaths in NYC Jails Since 2022

The Lawyers on the Front Lines of the War on Immigrants

Listen to Their Stories: These Crime Survivors Don’t Want More Prison

Sending in the National Guard Won’t Make Our Cities Safer

The Challenge of Finding a Job After Prison

ICE Is Denying People Bond to Keep Them Locked Up

3 Ways Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Will Undermine Public Safety

The Power of Music for People in Jail and Prison

Trump’s War on Nonprofits Will Make Us All Less Safe

What Does “Due Process” Mean for Immigrants and Why Is It Important?

What Is a Sanctuary City?

Justice Reform 101: What to Read, Watch, and Listen To

How to Fight Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda

10 Stories from Immigrants Seeking Safety in the United States

Presidents and Governors Should Pardon More People in Prison

How To Fight for Justice in Your State and Community in 2025

Staying Connected When Your Loved One Is in Prison

Corrections Staffing Shortages Offer Chance to Rethink Prison

“Lockdown” is an Epidemic Plaguing U.S. Prisons

About Half a Million People in Jail Have a Legal Right to Vote, But Don’t Get to Cast Ballots

California’s New Workplace Heat Standards Don’t Apply to Prisons, Reflecting Harmful Neglect Across the United States

The Truth about Immigrants in This Election Is That We Need to Do More to Protect Them

Why We Shouldn’t Call Trump a “Criminal”

It’s 2024, and Slavery Isn’t Over in the U.S.

What Happens When We Support Parents Instead of Sending Them to Prison

States’ Dangerous Attempts at Immigration Enforcement Threaten Our Communities

The Risk of Deportation: What Happens When You Can’t Find a Lawyer

Debunking the Lies Politicians Say About Immigrants

“We Need to Listen”

Now is the Time to Protect Asylum, Humanitarian Parole, and Due Process

No One Should Be Sentenced to Die in Prison

Video Visits for Families of People in Jail and Prison Should Be Free

Eight Ways You Can Advance Justice Reform in 2024

2024 Is the Year to Keep Shrinking Mass Incarceration

Why Punishing People in Jail and Prison Isn’t Working

The United States Criminalizes People Who Need Health Care and Housing

Yes, It’s Legal to Seek Immigration Asylum in the United States

Polling Shows Voters Prefer Crime Prevention Over Punishment

Cite and Release is Keeping People Out of Jail

The Immigration System is Racist; Solutions Exist

Four Years in Jail Without Trial: A New Public Defender Office Comes to Hays County, Texas

Juneteenth Is Incomplete While Slavery Persists in Prisons

Arrested While Bringing His Son Gifts—Then Deported

Children Suffer When Parents Are Imprisoned

Close New York's "Legalized Sweatshops” and End Slavery Once and For All

The Fairness to Freedom Act Will Save Lives

No Person Is Illegal—the Language We Use for Immigration Matters

Fix the Asylum Process to Save Lives

Black Leaders Who Used the Law to Reform Prisons from Within

Actions You Can Take to Advance Justice Reform in 2023

2023: What’s Ahead in the Fight for Justice and True Public Safety

19 People Have Died from New York City Jails in 2022

New York Could Become the First State to Provide the Right to Legal Representation in Immigration Court

Seeking Help, Instead Imprisoned—Until They Found Representation

En busca de ayuda, fueron encarcelados—hasta que encontraron representación legal

Violence, Torture, and Isolation: What It’s Like to Be Trans in Prison

Take Action: Abuses on Rikers Island Must End!

We Need to Stop Monkeypox from Spreading Behind Bars

Brittney Griner’s Sentence Should Be a Wakeup Call About Cruel Prison Sentences in the United States

Planting Gardens Behind Bars

ICE Is Wasting Millions of Dollars on Unnecessary Detention Beds

25 Years of IIRIRA Shows Immigration Law Gone Wrong

Children Are Still Being Separated from Their Families at the Border

Slavery Is Still Legal for Two Million People in the U.S.

Two Years of COVID-19 Have Fueled a Crisis of Isolation in Prisons

Solitary Confinement Is Torture, Not COVID Medical Care

Government Can’t Say How Many People Die in U.S. Jails and Prisons

“A Matter of Survival”—Sade Dumas on Combating Racial Injustice in the Criminal Legal System

Rev. Alexis Anderson on Her Black History Heroes and Seeing Hope in the Prison Reform Movement

5 Black Heroes Who Took on the Fight Against Mass Incarceration

Winter in Prison: Icy Conditions, No Blankets, Illness, and Death

Locking Teenagers and Young Adults Up for Gun Possession Doesn’t Make Us Safer

If Biden Truly Wants a More “Fair, Orderly, and Humane” Immigration System, He Needs to Do These 6 Things

[It’s] a Torture Chamber

[It’s] a Torture Chamber

No Child Should Appear in Immigration Court Alone

Listen to People Who Are Incarcerated

End Police Stops for Minor Infractions

La práctica mortal del ICE de abandonar en la calle a los inmigrantes con discapacidades y enfermedades mentales