Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
Following over a year of litigation, a transgender inmate from Illinois is being allowed to transfer to a women’s prison. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 27-year old prisoner Strawberry Hampton was recently moved to Logan Correctional Center, outside Lincoln, IL. The MacArthur Justice Center issued a statement Thursday announcing the transfer, which was later confirmed
An eight-year old boy from Guatemala died in U.S. custody on Tuesday. The death marks the second time in a month that an immigrant child has died after being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. POLITICO reports that the boy showed “signs of potential illness” on Monday. He, along with his father, was transported
Even though a significant majority of Michiganders voted to legalize recreational marijuana in December, the state still faces significant hurdles in the face of push-back from employers and city councils. Although it’s now legal for most anyone in Michigan to buy, sell or smoke marijuana, employers are still permitted to fire or refuse to hire
A Texas inmate is suing the state corrections department, claiming officials refused to treat a flesh-eating bacterial infection. Filed by inmate Harold Millican in federal court, the lawsuit accuses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Gist State Jail’s warden of “callous indifference.” Millican says jail staff wouldn’t offer “proper care” or take him to
After some 200 attempts and a century of trying, the U.S. Senate has finally passed a bill to make lynching a federal crime. CNN reports that the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, passed unanimously on Wednesday, was introduced by the Senate’s three African-American members: California’s Kamala Harris (D), New Jersey Democrat and Cory Booker
Challenges are already rolling in to the Trump administration’s Tuesday ban on bump stocks, a firearm accessory that emulates automatic fire in semiautomatic weapons. While the sale and possession of fully automatic firearms has long been tightly regulated, bump stocks have long served as an alternative to permits and background checks. The variety of device,
At least a dozen advertisers, including IHOP, are pulling ads from Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight after its host said that immigrants are making America “dirtier.” “As an economic matter, [immigration] is insane. It’s indefensible so nobody even tries to defend it. Instead, our leaders demand that we shut up and accept this,” Carlson said. “’We
Kansas has agreed to pay more than $1 million to Richard Anthony Jones, who spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Jones’ lawsuit, recounts the Kansas City Star, eventually became known as the doppelganger case. Both Jones and the man who may have committed the crime share an unusually similar appearance.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by survivors of February’s Parkland school shooting, saying neither the school district nor the local sheriff’s office had a constitutional duty to protect students from being massacred. The decision, writes the New York Times, ends a suit filed by 15 students who claim to have been traumatized by
On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s attempts to block immigrants from citing gang violence and domestic abuse as grounds for asylum violated U.S. law. The ruling, writes USA Today, is the second major judicial rebuke to the White House’s attempts to stymie asylum claims in recent months. The latest blow hearkens