No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC

A new class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of immigration advocacy groups alleges that undocumented immigrants have been detained in “crowded, squalid, and punitive conditions” in New York City. The complaint paints a bleak picture of life inside the holding facility, confirming details previously published in articles by Gothamist and the New York Times, which […]

https://murica.website/2025/08/no-showers-sleeping-on-concrete-floors-the-squalid-conditions-for-immigrants-in-nyc/

U.S. #Judiciary confirms breach of court electronic records service

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-judiciary-confirms-breach-of-court-electronic-records-service/

Chris Minns is a soulless leach and I hope he dies in a fucking fire.

Kathleen Folbigg deserves compensation for what she's gone through. I hope she does sue, and I hope she bankrupts his entire government.

#Criminology #CriminalJustice #KathleenFolbigg #NSWPol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/08/kathleen-folbigg-should-sue-minns-government-over-payout-ntwnfb

I talked with my lecturer about possibly doing the anti-Semitism/Palestinian resistance topic for my assessment.

He explained that he'd love to read my take on it even if I looked at it via the hate crime topic, but also that if he said I could do that then he'd have to say yes to everyone who asked if they could do a topic we've already covered*, but we talked about perhaps looking at protest laws and policy and using it as an example to cover that (which then opens up discussion of the BLM protests compared to the anti-covid protests).

I've also pmuch finished a presentation on coercive control and have that ready to go if I can't make the anti-Semitism one work.

I think what I need to do is plan out the essay for assessment 5, and then work backwards from that to get the presentation in line.. and that'll help me work out if I can do it. The presentation is due on the 18th, so I pmuch have 10 days to research and plan a 2000 word essay and then write and record a 10 minute video presentation outlining the issue the essay will cover.

Nothing can go wrong with this plan!

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* personally I think the "we'd have to say yes to everyone" response is pmuch always nonsense.

Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration
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Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and police accountability.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-law-firms-accountability-environment-police-lgbtq?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I have to pick a topic to make a 10 minute video presentation on, and then write an essay about for my "Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Crime and Justice" subject.

I can choose anything that is a "contemporary or emerging issue" that I want to research, however it can't be anything that our modules already cover..

Our modules are:

- Hate Crime
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Wildlife, Animal, and Forestry Crime
- Trafficking in Cultural Property
- Identity Crime
- Technology, Digitals, and Crime Prevention
- Institutional Abuse
- Trauma, Personality Functioning, and Offending Behaviour
- Aging Offenders
- Work with Offending Behaviour
- The Professions in Criminal Justice and Wellbeing

I want to write about the NSW anti-Semitism laws, and how they're actually being used to cow criticism of Israel's genocidal actions against Palestine, but I feel like the marker is going to think that comes too close to the "hate crime" module.

I was thinking of writing about either the under-16 social media ban or about Ring door camera surveillance stuff (but both could be covered by the tech/digitals module).

The only other thing I can think of is the whole ligature points in prisons issue.

Suggestions welcome!

ICE Plans to Build More Tent Jails for Immigrants. What Could Go Wrong?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), now the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in the United States, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But considering the $45 billion it’s been given for the job, the agency’s vision for its new facilities seems startlingly low-tech. In July, the Wall Street Journal got […]

https://murica.website/2025/08/ice-plans-to-build-more-tent-jails-for-immigrants-what-could-go-wrong/

I'm exhausted today.. it's been a big week.

I was planning to get my uni assignment in today (when it's due), and have written it.. I just have to add a tiny bit in the hate crime section about anti-Semitism/Palestinian resistance, and a tiny bit in the human trafficking section that basically says we need to come correct on asylum seekers to properly protect people from human trafficking (without blowing up my word limit haha). Then a quick edit and it's done.

But I've hit the point where I'm just literally not getting anything done because I'm having trouble being awake, so I'm going to have to try to get it finished on the weekend and hand it in a little later than I wanted.

ICE Arrests an Immigrant Whom SF Judge Said May be Mentally Impaired

This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers leaving routine court hearings at San Francisco immigration court Thursday morning were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, including one man who a judge had just said might be mentally impaired. They’re the latest in a series of ICE actions, […]

https://murica.website/2025/07/ice-arrests-an-immigrant-whom-sf-judge-said-may-be-mentally-impaired/

Bruce Lehrmann suffers legal defeat as he tries to halt rape trial in Toowoomba

Defence drops claim that recordings of phone calls between Lehrmann and his lawyers were ‘illegally obtained’ by Queensland police

#KillYourLocalRapist #BruceLehrmann #GenderedViolence #Rape #RapeCulture #SexualAssault #Crime #Criminology #CriminalJustice #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/25/bruce-lehrmann-rape-trial-latest-update-toowoomba-qld-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Looking at human trafficking in this weeks lecture, and my lecturer was just talking about Australia and fruit/veg picking.

...my mother is a "manager" for fruit picking, and I've had SO MANY arguments with her about "holding" the passports of the people she's "managing".

Four Years After Cop Was Filmed Slamming Black Woman to the Ground, Louisiana Passes Accountability Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-police-shantel-arnold-law

#CriminalJustice,Unwatched

Did That Weird Birthday Letter to Jeffrey Epstein Sound Like the Work of Donald Trump?

This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. This past Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report about President Trump’s relationship with convicted child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. According to the Journal, the materials collected as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into Epstein included a 2003 birthday message […]

https://murica.website/2025/07/did-that-weird-birthday-letter-to-jeffrey-epstein-sound-like-the-work-of-donald-trump/

“Abolition, as a tradition, a philosophy, and a theory of change, moves away from a myopic focus on the prison toward a more expansive vision of the social, political, and economic processes that defined the context within which imprisonment came to be viewed as the legitimate hand of justice. As a “practical organizing tool and long-term goal”, abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment. As illustrated by the history of the prison and the police, reforms sold as “progressive” all too often function to mask expanding mandates, logics, and budget lines. Abolitionist movements require struggles about strategy and vision: what, for example are the “non-reformist reforms” (to use a phrase coined by Marxist theorist Andre Gorz and applied by Thomas Mathiesen in his Politics of Abolition) that make sustainable and material differences in the lives of people living under the control of oppressive systems?”

—Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners & Beth E. Richie

[“Abolition. Feminism. Now.” pg 45-46 (epub). 2022]

This thought provoking article is making me rethink my recent assertion that the Epstein files scandal is distracting us from the "real issues".

>>There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction untethered to reality. But it’s actually about the policy issue I’ve probably spent more time writing on than any other in my career in journalism: the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America, and the impunity we afford the nation’s elites.<<

Do read the whole thing.

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-15-jeffrey-epstein-is-policy-issue/

Five deported from US to Eswatini over criminal convictions http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLy2hq #Eswatini #Deportation #USPolitics #CriminalJustice #ImmigrationReform

Just changing my zoom avatar to a giant fucking Palestinian flag before my lecture.

...let's see if I can single-handedly get the uni's funding cancelled.

One of my subjects this semester is "Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Crime and Justice", and the first topic is on Hate Crimes.

This is going to be interesting..