December 1, 2015 by Alejandro Caceres
TAKE ACTION: The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is trying again to license family detention centers as “childcare” facilities after a judge blocked the state from licensing the family detention lockups under a so-called "emergency" rule. [node:read-more:link]
November 20, 2015 by Cate Graziani
Last month, the Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune shed light on horrific conditions in Florida’s state-funded mental health facilities in a recent joint investigation - with an offensive headline - Ins [node:read-more:link]
November 19, 2015 by Cate Graziani
When I asked Diana Claitor, Executive Director of the Texas Jail Project, which jail in Texas offers an example of what’s working, she replied without hesitation: Brazos County. [node:read-more:link]
November 5, 2015 by Cristina Parker
As a hunger strike inside the Hutto immigrant detention center in Taylor, Texas spreads throughout the facility, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are ramping up retaliation and abuse against women participating in the protest. [node:read-more:link]
November 3, 2015 by Bob Libal
November 2, 2015 by Bethany N. Carson
On day 6 of the hunger strike at the Hutto Detention Center, sources inside report that the hunger strike has grown dramatically within the detention center, including at least one section where all women are participating. [node:read-more:link]
October 27, 2015 by Cristina Parker
UPDATE: The Hunger stike continues for a third day. ICE has retaliated against the women at the center by denying them time outside when they might see our vigil and hear our chants.
News broke Wednesday evening that at least 27 women refused dinner at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in Taylor, Texas as the start of a hunger strike. [node:read-more:link]
September 24, 2015 by Cate Graziani
As part of a series of changes to the civil commitment program in Texas, Littlefield will serve as the new home for nearly 200 individuals convicted of a sexual offense who have served their time, but who have been indefinitely civilly committed. Although federally required to be a treatment program, not a punitive one, a company with roots in the private prison industry will operate the facility. Correct Care Recovery Solutions (CCRS), formerly known as GEO Care, is a spin-off corporation of GEO Group, the same corporation that operated the facility until 2009. [node:read-more:link]
September 22, 2015 by Kymberlie Quong Charles
September 21, 2015 by Bob Libal
We're happy to welcome Cate Graziani to the Grassroots Leadership team as our new Mental Health Campaigns Coordinator.
While completing a Master of Science in Social Work and a Master of Public Affairs from UT - Austin, Cate contributed to Grassroots Leadership’s groundbreaking research on the private prison industry’s foray into mental healthcare, and the over-incarceration of individuals with mental health and substance use disorders was the focus of her master’s thesis. [node:read-more:link]
