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Wyatt lawyers respond to my APRA appeal
Lawyers for the Wyatt Detention Facility today responded to my appeal of their decision to deny me a list of the names of the people being detained in the prison by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In an email, at...
The General Assembly continues to be complicit in the evil of payday loans
Powerful lobbyists have a choke hold on the General Assembly leadership, which is only too happy to enable the continued soaking of the most vulnerable Rhode Islanders The Senate Committee on Commerce met on Tuesday afternoon to consider...
Parkland Mayor Hunschofsky visits Central Falls
"I want to say that this has been an idea ever since I met the Mayor of Parkland," said Central Falls Mayor James Diossa, introducing Parkland, Florida Mayor Christine Hunschofsky. "We all think that a mass shooting would never happen in...
AMOR attempts to contact ICE detainees held at Wyatt Detention Center
"The ending of the ICE contract at the Wyatt is a hollow victory if it is not accompanied by support for those currently detained, with a focus on getting people out of ICE custody. Simply transferring people to another state is not a ju...
Pro-choice students surrounded and prayed at during State House demonstration
“I feel that women have the right to choose,” said Hollie, a student at Rhode Island College (RIC) School of Social Work. “You have the right over your own body and just because your religious beliefs are one way doesn’t mean that others...
Gun violence prevention in action at the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) partnered with the Cranston Action Network to host two speakers on preventing gun violence on Thursday evening. Dr Megan Ranney, is the founder of AFFIRM, a coalition of leading Un...
Greg Gerritt to ProJo: More natural gas infrastructure is not a good thing
To the Editor of the Providence Journal, While I would prefer to celebrate the defeat of the poorly thought out plan to monetize the Providence Water Supply, April 4 2019 also brought another editorial in the Providence Journal’s regular...
Wyatt Board suspends ICE contract for 90 days; Detainees need to be moved out in seven days
New Board Chair Joseph Molina Flinn says Warden overstepped in signing contract; cites human rights and fiduciary concerns The meeting at the Wyatt Detention Facility Training Building gymnasium was attended by over 100 people, including...
Central Falls City Council begins their move against the Wyatt by revoking foundational resolutions
The Central Falls City Council passed two resolutions Wednesday evening “rescinding, withdrawing, denouncing, invalidating and terminating” two 1991 resolutions then required under state law to enable to construction of the Wyatt Detenti...
Central Falls Mayor, City Council President visit Wyatt Detention Center
"Having gone down to the border to protest with mayors both from the Democratic Party [and] the Republican Party - To see this happening in your own back yard, to see folks in there who wouldn't leave their country of origin for no other...