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Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Finds

Roxsana Rodriguez died following lack of medical treatment in a privately run immigration detention center. An autopsy concludes that she was beaten.

ACLU

November 27, 2018 at 9:36 PM

Private prisons like Core Civic make millions of dollars from ICE to detain immigrants and are notorious for abusive and dangerous conditions.

Roxsana's death is a tragedy.

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La jueza asociada del Tribunal Supremo de EEUU, Sonia Sotomayor, en su opinión disidente, critíca fuertemente la reciente opinión en el caso Jones v. Mississippi (22 de abril de 2021); expresando que la 8va Enmienda a la Constitución de EEUU sobre trato cruel e inusitado requiere que una persona joven que es sentenciada a una sentencia de encarcelamiento perpetuo debe tener por lo menos alguna esperanza que pasará algunos de sus años de vida fuera de los muros de las prisiones.

Lean la opinión en:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-1259_8njq.pdf

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Sotomayor blasts Kavanaugh's decision on juvenile life sentences

Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a blistering dissent Thursday hammered a 6-3 decision penned by Justice Brett Kavanaugh that rejected certain limits on juvenile life sentences.

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We Must Abolish Qualified Immunity to Prevent Further Police Harm — Especially for People in Mental Health Crises

When courts are forgiving police for tasing people who are covered in gasoline, things have gone very wrong.

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