Content note: This story contains descriptions of deaths in prisons, including suicide. On July 16, 2010, at 11 PM, Jeremy started sweating. He walked to the health-care unit inside the Lawrence Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison in southeast Illinois, where he was serving a 14-year sentence. The facility sits about 90 minutes from Terre […]
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Living in exile
After her husband was deported, Katrina Jabbi moved her family to Gambia to be with him. Then the pandemic happened.
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‘Please stay at home’
From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.
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This is how deportation fractures American families
A story of what happens when the undocumented parents and spouses of U.S. citizens are “kidnapped by ICE”