The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates two “Communications Management Units” - experimental prison units in Illinois and Indiana designed to isolate prisoners from the general population. Two-thirds of the prisoners...
An important recent decision by the US Supreme Court could have significant implications for free speech and constitutional rights. In Holder versus Humanitarian Law Project, the court decided that speech could be...
On Friday, the Louisiana Workforce Commission found in favor of Filipino teachers who, together with the American Federation of Teachers, challenged the policies of the recruiting agency that arranged for them to come...
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Padilla v. Kentucky that non-citizens have a constitutional right to be informed by their lawyers if pleading guilty could lead to deportation. We find out how the...
Despite his opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act as a Senate candidate in 2003, President Obama recently signed an extension of a number of its provisions. Among them are a reauthorization of court-approved roving wiretaps...
With Congress rumored to take up the issue of comprehensive immigration reform this spring, LGBTQ groups are mobilizing to make sure the legislation addresses their concerns, including legalization, family...
APF has been following the case of Flushing native Fahad Hashmi, who has been held in solitary confinement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center for more than two years, charged with providing material...
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist, has been described alternately as one of the most wanted women connected to al-Qaeda and as an innocent victim of the US-led regime of “enforced disappearances.” After ten...
On New Years Day, immigrant rights activists took sanctuary in a Florida church and began a fast to draw attention to the harmful effects of current deportation policy. We speak to Subhash Kateel of Florida Immigrant...
Monday, January 11 was the eighth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, and on January 22, it will be exactly one year since president Obama issued his executive order to close the prison within a year. We...
