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      Federal Lawsuit Naming Top Trump Officials Seeks Damages for 'Horrific' Trauma Imposed on Separated Children and Families

      Federal Lawsuit Naming Top Trump Officials Seeks Damages for 'Horrific' Trauma Imposed on Separated Children and Families

      "Some may never recover, but we are fighting to give them a chance."

      Jessica Corbett
      Oct 03, 2019

      The ACLU and other attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in the Arizona U.S. District Court Thursday "seeking damages on behalf of thousands of traumatized children and parents who were forcibly torn from each other under the Trump administration's illegal practice of separating families at the border."

      "We think that the family separations was so extreme and so unprecedented that if ever there was a case warranting damages, it's this one."
      --Lee Gelernt, ACLU

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      Slamming 'Corruption' That Has Allowed Rampant Abuse, Warren Releases Plan to Ban Private Prisons

      Slamming 'Corruption' That Has Allowed Rampant Abuse, Warren Releases Plan to Ban Private Prisons

      "There should be no place in America for profiting off of putting more people behind bars or in detention."

      Julia Conley
      Jun 21, 2019

      Calling the federal government's close ties with for-profit prison operators "corruption," Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her plan to ban private prisons should she win the presidency in 2020.

      The Massachusetts Democrat's proposal focused on the massive growth in the private prison industry over the last two decades. In that time, the government has turned a blind eye to human rights abuses within private detention centers, the price gouging companies like Core Civic and Geo Group subject inmates to, and as lawmakers have enriched their campaigns through their relationships with those companies--making the enforcement of any restrictions impossible.

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      Warren and Jayapal Launch Probe into 'Rapid, Cynical, and Unethical' Profiteering Off Trump Child Detention Policy by Former Top Aide John Kelly

      Warren and Jayapal Launch Probe into 'Rapid, Cynical, and Unethical' Profiteering Off Trump Child Detention Policy by Former Top Aide John Kelly

      The former White House chief of staff and former head of DHS is specifically advising the company on child detention

      Eoin Higgins
      Jun 06, 2019

      Two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday morning launched an investigation into a former top Trump administration official who is profiting off the White House's policy of family separation and child detention.

      "General Kelly's role in promoting and helping execute these cruel immigration policies remains a stain on his decades of public service."
      --Sen. Elizabeth Warrn and Rep. Pramila Jayapal

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