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CIS Report Attempts to Erase 100 Years of Data on Immigrants and Crime
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 10th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A man who helped load smuggled immigrants into a tractor-trailer in which 17 of them later died in Victoria was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison Monday. – Abelardo Flores Jr in Texas
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A former Memphis police officer has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing money from Hispanic motorists while on duty.
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Welcomes Juan Garibay as a Community Ambassador
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 30th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Mexican Political Prisoner Gloria Arenas Released
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 14th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A 21-year-old Montgomery County man Hector Hernandez whose criminal case helped trigger new police policies in Montgomery Count regarding illegal immigration was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday for killing a 14-year-old honor student aboard a transit bus last year
One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 12th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
The Pecos Insurrection – How a private prison pushed immigrant inmates to the brink. (a must read)
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 7th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A former Costa Rican president was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Monday for embezzling funds from a Finnish loan intended for medical equipment for public hospitals. – Rafael Calderon president from 1990-1994
DHS Plan To Improve Immigration Detention An Encouraging Step – Due Process, Enforceable Detention Standards And Overhaul Of ICE Enforcement Programs Still Needed
Rita Moreno, Star of Stage, Screen, and Television to Deliver 14th Annual Burian Lecture, October 7, 2009
HispanicTips » » Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 22nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Internationally acclaimed artistsSet to Perform in El Barrio For Freedom CD Release Party – Yomo Toro, Roy Brown, Zon del Barrio, Siete Nueve & The Welfare Poets take a musical stand for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 15th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
The recently formed Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice has joined with local Latino leaders to launch a plan aimed at reducing the disproportionate number of Hispanics in the state’s prisons.
LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING PRESENTS NEW SEASON OF SERIES FEATURES FILMS ABOUT CELIA CRUZ, TITO PUENTE AND MORE – PREMIERES FALL 2009 ON NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION
NCLR ALMA AWARDS EVEN BIGGER FOR 2009 – The 2009 ALMA Awards will air FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 8 to 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 24th, 2009
Mexico to offer treatment, instead of prison or fines
Study: Immigration judge as stressed out as emergency room doctors, prison wardens
DHS Announces 11 Previously Unreported Deaths In Immigration Detention
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 14th, 2009
One Latino Michigan inmate shares his perspective on prison life as he waits for Gov. Granholm to decide his fate
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 12th, 2009
Black-Latino tensions blamed in Chino prison riot
Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Continue Trade in Prison
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 10th, 2009
Political prisoners held in Cuba increased by one to 206 in the past six months, the first time the number has not dropped sharply since Raul Castro took over
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 6th, 2009 – The Sonia Edition
Obama’s Vision of “Truly Civil” Immigrant Prison Reform: More Prisoners, More Prisons
U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants – The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 5th, 2009
The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months.
Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report by National Immigration Law Center Finds “A Broken System” is based on 18,000 pages of previously confidential ICE, ABA, and UNHCR reviews of detention centers
Maria Conchita Alonso Narrates New Documentary About Latin American Dictators And Immigration
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Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 20th, 2009
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for embezzlement on Monday after he admitted illegally paying his spy chief $15 million in government funds.
Hispanic y Latino News :: June 22th, 2009
An Oklahoma lawmaker who wrote one of the strongest state immigration laws in the nation is continuing his fight against illegal immigration with legislation that authorizes the deportation of illegal immigrant prison inmates.
With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state’s prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.
Hispanic y Latino News :: June 16th, 2009
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to dramatically expand an immigration enforcement program that uses biometric information to check the immigration status of all individuals booked at state and local jails. Known as Secure Communities, ICE expects to make the program available to each of the nation’s 1,200 state and federal prisons and 3,100 local jails by the end of 2012.
LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING PRESENTS NEW SEASON OF “VOCES” – SERIES FEATURES FILMS ABOUT CELIA CRUZ, TITO PUENTE AND MORE – PREMIERES SEPTEMER 2009 ON NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION
Hispanic y Latino News for Wednesday June 3rd, 2009
The rounding up of thousands of suspects in Mexico’s drug war has left the already unruly prison system overwhelmed with jailbreaks and struggling to contain deadly riots between inmates from rival gangs.
Cuban Exile Emilio Izquierdo Mobilizes For Fellow Survivors Of Castro’s Prison Camp
Fidel Castro says President Obama “misinterpreted” his brother Raul’s remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on remittances from abroad as a goodwill gesture to the U.S.
A leading rights activist says most of Cuba’s 200 or more political prisoners would rather serve out long terms on the island than be part of an exchange for five communist agents imprisoned in the U.S., as Cuban President Raul Castro has suggested.
At a time when Latinos are interacting more than ever with police, courts and prisons, their confidence in the U.S. criminal justice system is closer to the low levels expressed by blacks than to the high levels expressed by whites, according to a pair of nationwide surveys by the Pew Research Center.
Peru court sentences Alberto Fujimori to 25 years prison
Tens of Thousands Languish in Immigration Detention Without Hearings or Bond, Numbers Tripled Since 1996, Charges Amnesty International
Five indigenous human rights activists in Mexico are still being held in prison nearly a year after their arrest, despite insufficient evidence against them.
Hugo Chávez’s rival might be imprisoned – An arrest warrant was requested for Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had previously threatened to wipe his rival from the politica
Attorney and journalist Mario Enrique Mayo, imprisoned in 2003 by the Cuban government, arrived Wednesday in Miami on a commercial flight from Mexico.
A former Bush White House aide was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for stealing nearly $600,000 from a government-funded program that promotes democracy in Cuba. Felipe Sixto apologized for stealing from the Center for a Free Cuba
Cuba’s Ladies in White decided to pray instead of protest for their imprisoned relatives Tuesday as they marked the sixth anniversary of a crackdown in which the government jailed 75 activists and independent journalists.
Two prominent Miami-Dade brothers are scheduled to surrender to federal authorities Monday afternoon to begin their nine-year prison sentences for orchestrating a kickback scheme involving millions of dollars in contracts with a Kendall hospital. – Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes
Joe Cuba: The Father of New York Boogaloo has passed
NUEVO PLAN DE AZTLAN: ROADMAP TO PEACE AND JUSTICE THROUGHOUT OUR AMERICAS
News Summaries for January 28th, 2009
The president of a New Bedford leather-goods factory that was raided in 2007 by immigration agents was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in federal prison for harboring and concealing illegal immigrants.
The president of a New Bedford leather-goods factory that was raided in 2007 by immigration agents was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in federal prison for harboring and concealing illegal immigrants.
Puerto Rico is joining a growing list of U.S. places refusing to take in any detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison camps.
In his final acts of clemency, President Bush on Monday commuted the prison sentences of two former Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration.
News Summary for December 23rd – 28th, 2008
Tejano singer Adalberto C. Gallegos Jr., 52, of Tucson has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison on money laundering charges, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix.
News Summary for December 19th-22nd, 2008
In defiance: Cuba’s women prisoners – While Cuban male political prisoners have long captured the media limelight, the women have mostly kept their memories private.
A judge has sentenced Jamie Underwood to 120 years in prison without the possibility of parole in the slayings of six Mexican immigrants in the Tifton area three years ago – Georgia
News Summaries for Monday – December 15th, 2008
Between January and September, the National Migration Institute, Mexico’s immigration service, deported 350 Americans, some of them lawbreakers who had finished prison sentences in the country, but others merely travelers who were found to be without proper paperwork.
News Summary for Tuesday – December 2nd, 2008
Immigrants Drive Prison Profits – Immigrants are behind one of America’s fastest growing, most profitable industries. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Immigrants have always been a core factor in U.S. economic development.
News Summary for November 20th & 21st, 2008
A Cuban man who lost both of his arms — after he tried to escape from prison following a failed attempt to reach Florida — denounced the Cuban government Wednesday for keeping his family on the island even though they have been issued visas to join him in the United States. – Jorge Albart Rodriguez
News Summary for Tuesday – November 18th, 2008
Chicano Mexicano Prison Project Promotes Art Among Hispanic Prisoners – Inmates learn to express themselves artistically — and send a message about what is happening in prison
News Summary for October 28th – November 3rd, 2008
Photographer documents Mara Salvatrucha in prison
Blogante News Summary for October 21st-23rd, 2008
Alleged confessor in Ciudad Juarez killings extradited to Mexico – Jose Francisco Granados de la Paz allegedly admitted to killing at least 10 women in the border city. He was already in prison in the U.S. on immigration violations.
SECOND ANNUAL EVA’S HEROES CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT – Post-Tournament Fashion Show to be hosted by Mario Lopez – San Antonio, October 18, 2008
ESPN Deportes Presents Three-Part Series on Former MLB Player Ugueth Urbina Beginning Sunday, September 28 on SportsCenter
Blogante News Summary for Monday – September 22nd, 2008
Blogante News Summary for Thursday – September 18th, 2008
Blogante Essentials for Thursday – September 18th, 2008
A prison-cell painting by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been auctioned for US$255,000 to raise money for his socialist party.
Treasury Targets Venezuelan Government Officials Supporting the FARC
Joe Arpaio’s Prisoners Spend “Millions” on Canteen Purchases: So, Um, Where’s the Dough, Joe?
Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – September 9th, 2008
Rhode Island’s prison system has entered an agreement with federal immigration authorities that would allow for the early release of illegal immigrants imprisoned for nonviolent offenses if they agree to be deported.
2008 Republican National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Tommy Espinoza
Lifting the veil on AIDS in a Mexican prison
Mexico moves to curb drug crime wave – President Calderon proposes new anti-kidnapping squads, special prisons, cellphone tracking and aid for local forces.
