On the 4th of February 2025, the President of El Salvador offered the United States of America ‘the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system’, transferring convicted U.S. criminals into the Salvadoran mega-prison (CECOT) ‘in exchange for a fee.’ Amidst an increasingly fragile rule of law, mounting carceral expansion and documented human rights abuses … Read more
More than 1,500 prisoners escaped from a Maputo prison Wednesday, December 25, taking advantage of the third day of unrest triggered by the controversial confirmation of the long-ruling Frelimo party as the winner of recent elections. A total of 1,534 detainees escaped the high-security prison located about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the capital, said … Read more
Monica Basche, an attorney at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, presented two sessions at the National Federation of the Blind of Virginia’s 66th Annual Convention in Portsmouth, Virginia. The three-day annual conference is the largest gathering of blind and low-vision people in Virginia, providing the opportunity for attendees to connect on topics to achieve equality and … Read more
