Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."

Immigrants In Georgia Detention Centers Hunger Strike For Medical Care, Instead Receive Solitary Confinement

“When I requested medical care, sometimes no one would reply. I was not given medical care until ICE later approved it. When I reached out for medical help, I was placed in solitary confinement.”

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Photo from report by Project South and the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Georgia immigrant detention centers frequently put asylum seekers and other migrants into solitary confinement as punishment for going on hunger strike. In a report [PDF] produced by Project South and the Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, human rights abuses at Stewart Detention

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Family Of Disabled Man Injured In Violent Immigration Raid Files Federal Lawsuit

The victim ended up in a Chicago Police gang database after being the victim of a drive-by shooting while on his way home from work, that information was then passed onto ICE, who ultimately conducted the raid.

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Celene Adame, wife of Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez, speaks about her husband’s arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a May Day rally at Chicago’s Union Park. (Photo: Jeanne Kuang/Injustice Watch)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The family of a father and resident of Chicago, who suffers from traumatic brain injury and paralysis sustained in a drive-by shooting, has sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the city of Chicago after he was detained on March 27. Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez was “slammed on the ground” by

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Tortured Women’s Rights Advocate Smeared By CNN Following Guilty Plea

This was a political case from the beginning, but one would not know that from reading CNN’s atrocious coverage .

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Screenshot from CNN.com

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Recognizing the United States government would probably deport her eventually whether she won or lost her case, Rasmea Odeh pled guilty to a charge that she “procured” U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose she was previously convicted of a crime by an Israeli military court in 1969. The plea was

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Snowden Documentarian Laura Poitras Endured Years Of Government Surveillance, Harassment

Laura Poitras’ travel nightmare began more than a decade ago when the award-winning filmmaker started getting detained at airports every time she tried to set foot back in the United States.

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Laura Poitras

  Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Documents released in response to a lawsuit suggest Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was stopped routinely by airport security because she was falsely accused of involvement in an ambush in Iraq. The attack resulted in the death of a United States soldier in 2004. Poitras shared

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New Documentary Examines One State’s Struggle To Reform Solitary Confinement

More than thirty states have pursued some kind of reform of their policies for solitary confinement. PBS FRONTLINE’s “Last Days Of Solitary” looks at Maine’s attempts to reform the practice.

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An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. “You lose all feeling. You become immune to everything,” says Sam Caison, a prisoner who has been in and out of solitary confinement. “You’re not the same after spending so much time by yourself in those conditions. I don’t care who you are, you don’t come out the same person.” Caison was in a

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The Resurgence Of Climate Change Denial And Anti-Science

Michael Mann addresses the chilly atmosphere for scientists currently in Washington, DC, and talks about the dire situation the world finds itself on as President Donald Trump rolls back initiatives intended to combat climate change.

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Scientists hold signs during a rally in conjunction with the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola are joined by Michael Mann, who is a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University. He also directs the Penn State University Earth Science Center. And he’s the co-author of the book, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Unfazed By Deadly Nature Of His Ideological Agenda

Scott Pruitt is possibly the first EPA administrator who has “no commitment to the mission of the agency.” That lack of commitment will mean increased rates of sickness and terrible stories of death.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington. Pruitt said Thursday, March 9, 2017, he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. With President Donald Trump’s administration set to make dramatic and devastating cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and further cutback federal environmental regulations, the agency’s newly confirmed administrator Scott Pruitt shrugs off concerns about the millions of Americans who will

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