“Religious liberty is under threat in this country like never before,” Sen. Ted Cruz said last fall. He predicted that, “as these threats grow darker and darker and darker, they are waking people up in Texas and across the country.”
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After almost two decades of overcrowding, disgusting food, lack of medical care and deaths—and after terrific reporting decrying these abuses (see the work of Seth Freed Wessler in The Nation and Shane Bauer in Mother Jones)—the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) would phase out its use of private prisons. On Monday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson announced that the DHS would evaluate whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Читать дальше...