Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When immigration agents raided a fast-fashion warehouse a mile from Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles earlier this month, the tension in the school was palpable. That...
A drug trafficker has had his prison sentence extended after the Court of Appeal deemed his initial punishment too lenient. Stephen Wills, 36, from Bridford, Exeter, was sentenced to nine years in prison in March for his role in two organised crime groups that trafficked large quantities of cocaine across the country. However his sentence...
“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” the executive chairman of GEO Group said shortly after the election. As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also revising and expanding contracts with private prison facilities. Prison companies can earn millions from the federal government...
Cameron Weldon & Kirk England BBC News, South West BBC One swimmer from Budleigh Salterton said she worries about pollution levels in the sea Water campaigners have described new figures on storm overflow usage as “sickening” after they showed how many times sewage was spilled into the sea and rivers in the South West. In...