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.
A transgender woman reportedly died in I.CE. custody last Friday after being detained for five days in a small cell fraught with freezing temperatures. Roxana Hernandez, 33, arrived in California early in May. After a 2,000-mile journey, the transgender woman was banking on the opportunity to file an asylum application. Citing widespread “violence” and “hate”
Some four and a half years ago, Florida sheriff’s deputies showed up to the home of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. The African-American father of three was a man with an imperfect past. He had several traffic violations on his record—serious violations, according to The New York Times—and had been drinking long before law enforcement arrived.
A former inmate at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center says she was repeatedly raped by a guard and then victimized by an on-site counselor. Karen Backues Keil, writes the New York Post¸ was released from the Midwestern jail in February 2017. She’d served six years for forgery and theft. But the hardships of hard time didn’t
Earlier in the week, several conservative senators demanded that the White House and Congress act faster to effect comprehensive and much-needed immigration reform. “The sweet spot for getting an immigration deal remains now. The closer we get to the election and certainly post-election, the more difficult it will be,” said Cory Gardner (R-CO), leader of
Convicted cop-killer Demetrius Blackwell is suing New York City after being jumped by two other inmates in a borough jail. Blackwell, found guilty in the 2015 slaying of NYPD Officer Brian Moore, claims officials at the Brooklyn Detention Center failed to protect him from other prisoners. Citing an altercation last spring, the killer claims to
Two families of children killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting are filing a lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller of the weapon used in the attack. The families of Jaime Guttenberg and Alex Schachter—both gunned down at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in February—charge American Outdoor Brands and the Tactical Supply store with being
South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution is facing additional lawsuits stemming from an April riot which left seven dead and another seventeen injured. Four lawsuits, described by The State, provide a first-hand account of the riot’s violence. Each of the inmates behind the separate claims were stabbed by gang members—all while correctional officers waited outside the
On Friday, an Alaska judge ruled that a state prison must provide its Muslim inmates meals completely free of pork products. The decision, writes Newsweek, was announced late last week—mere days after the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Muslim prisoners at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. The suit claims Islamic
After admitting that it’s lost track of an estimated 1,500 undocumented children, the United States is saying that it’s not ‘legally responsible’ for the oversight. The disturbing figure was revealed by a Department of Homeland Security official in an April hearing. Steven Wagner—the agency’s acting assistant secretary—said the Office of Refugee Resettlement attempted to reach
Speaking in a Thursday interview, President Donald Trump suggested that the United States should scrap the courts and due process for undocumented immigrants and illegal border-crossers. Calling the system ‘corrupt,’ the commander-in-chief questioned why so many judges are needed to oversee so many deportation cases. “How do you hire thousands of people to be a