by Brian Dolinar | Feb 21, 2026 | Criminal Legal System, Criminalization, Deportations, ICE, Illinois, immigration, Jails, Missouri, News, sanctuary, Sanctuary Cities, Sanctuary Laws, Trump Administration, US Marshals
“We were in waiting mode,” a Honduran immigrant based in St. Louis told me as she described her time being held in a county jail in Missouri. In June 2025, the woman — who asked to be identified by pseudonym “Mary” to avoid targeting — was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a gas station in St. Louis. “Dinner was the same every day, and waiting was the worst part because…
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by Farrell Greenwald Brenner | Dec 12, 2025 | abuse, Criminal Legal System, Domestic Violence, Incarceration, intimate partner violence, News, Policing, Prisons
When a Maryland domestic violence shelter launched a new hotline last year, staffer Lashell Mack found it “a bit jarring” at first. She and her co-workers had been initially skeptical of the idea. “We all had concerns,” Mack said. That’s because this hotline isn’t for survivors of domestic violence — it’s for their partners, who use violence in their relationships. When House of Ruth…
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