Judge Orders U.S. to Release Immigrant Women & Children The impractical dimensions of incarceration are on public display again ... as always ... transcending politics, race, the public versus private prison debate, and motivation. This display, the 23,479th such display since 2010 by our reckoning, is a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California requiring the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to release detained immigrant children from one public and two private detention facilities. It seems those agencies had been detaining all female-headed families of Central American origin under a "no-release" policy in an effort to contain the surge of Central Americans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite ultimate motivation to help the new arrivals while a determination of their ...
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Work is a Blessing That's what someone who wrote a book said on NPR as I was listening on the way to work. I could not agree more. Work is what prisoners are not allowed to do much, not regularly, not for a profit, not as part of a business or enterprise that makes money ... usually as busy-work or to keep the prison running. Our prison systems are anti-work, despite every prison expert in all of history saying prisoners should work for their benefit and ours. Now, for the comparison with antebellum slavery: slaves worked hard ... they were exploited for their labor ... but they were never unemployed or unwanted for their skills or labor. Most ex-slaves admitted that work was good for them and taught them how to work for when they were emancipated. I know we like to think our society is progressing all the time, but in terms of providing work for people to do, for fostering the sense of belonging, for seeing the products of...