Utah’s polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism
Utah’s polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism
Utah’s polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism.
This New Year was looking like the brightest yet for anti-immigrant activist Maria Espinoza.
Hidden away in the woods of southwest Georgia sits the euphemistically named Stewart Detention Center. The facility, owned and operated by the for-profit corporation CoreCivic, holds men that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking to deport.
Located just outside the tiny rural community of Lumpkin, Stewart is surrounded by two tall fences topped with razor wire. Access is severely limited. No one is allowed a contact visit. Lawyers may not bring a laptop or even a phone into the facility. It is a prison, plain and simple.
A federal judge today declared the mental health care system in Alabama prisons to be “horrendously inadequate” – an unconstitutional failure that has resulted in a “skyrocketing suicide rate” among prisoners.
BATESVILLE, Miss. – Rita still felt sore from giving birth a few days earlier. But in the early morning on March 28, she rose to make breakfast for her husband and children. She did not know they were all being watched.
Two New Orleans bail bond companies working with two other businesses charged clients hidden and illegal fees – even sending armed bounty hunters to kidnap clients and extort money from their friends and family, according to a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The image from nationwide rallies this past weekend seems quite clear: The country’s largest anti-Muslim organization with close ties to the Trump Administration, ACT! for America, is welding its bonds with armed militia and Patriot groups, including Oath Keepers.
Louisiana’s Bogalusa City Court has agreed to issue $50 refunds to settle part of a federal lawsuit that describes how the court and a city judge operated a modern-day debtors’ prison by illegally jailing indigent people too poor to pay fines and court costs, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced today.
The moment seemed too surreal to believe.
Ten days ago, on the eve of a special election to fill Montana’s only U.S. House seat, GOP nominee Greg Gianforte was being pressed by a reporter.