After 20 years in a California prison, Ursula Gomez was handed to ICE and deported to Mexico, a country she left at 5. Now she’s rebuilding and fighting her case.
Mental Health & Trauma
911 calls reveal multiple suicide attempts at Adelanto ICE detention center
J Vasquez pasó 25 años preso desde los 16 por violencia pandillera ligada a trauma infantil. Hoy, a los 49, sanó y trabaja como director de política en CURYJ, escribiendo leyes para ayudar a otros.
J Vasquez spent 25 years incarcerated for gang violence rooted in childhood trauma. Now 49, he's healed, works as CURYJ's Policy Director, and helps writes laws to help others come home.
A Watts family endures 6 months of separation after ICE detains devoted father of four, José Padilla, straining finances, mental health, and the children's wellbeing.
Shasta’s jail has consistently passed most aspects of state inspections amid a worrying level of deaths. A close look at the state’s standards — and the California board responsible for examining deaths in jails — shows key gaps in oversight.
More than 7,000 immigrants were arrested in Massachusetts in the first 15 months of the second Trump administration, but the reverberations of those detentions affect thousands more family members.
The Clancy case provides an opportunity for journalists to step away from reveling in the shocking details and jury dynamic to explore a long overlooked topic — postpartum mood disorders, how poorly our health care system attends to them, and how consistently our criminal justice system fails to acknowledge them.