Blog of Rights

Azadeh N.
Shahshahani

Private Prisons for Immigrants Lack Accountability, Oversight

By Azadeh N. Shahshahani, ACLU Foundation of Georgia at 3:43pm

(Originally posted on AJC.com)

On March 11, a 39-year-old man held in detention at the Stewart Detention Center, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in southwest Georgia, died at a hospital in Columbus.

To this day, the immediate cause of Roberto Martinez Medina’s death remains unclear (a press release pronounced the cause of death as “apparent natural causes”).

Abusive Recruitment Practices? Not Now, Not Ever

By Azadeh N. Shahshahani, ACLU Foundation of Georgia at 3:54pm

Last night, I participated at a press conference to unveil a human rights resolution opposing the proposed DeKalb County Marine Corp. Institute (DCMI). DCMI would expose students as young as 14 to military discipline, military culture, and military training. It will be funded in part by the Marine Corps out of its recruitment budget and could become a pipeline for targeted minority recruitment into the military.

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