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[Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion? – ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/does-cybercrime-really-cost-1-trillion)
Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone
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Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a night.
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In Texas, Arguing That Heat Can Be a Death Sentence for Prisoners
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Prisoners’ rights advocates believe that the lack of air-conditioning in most Texas state prisons puts inmates’ lives at risk.
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See something, say something, uncover NYPD spying
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — He saw something. He said something. And he inadvertently uncovered a secret spying operation that the New York Police Department was running outside its jurisdiction.
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DC police chief announces shockingly reasonable cell camera policy
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She bans DC cops from confiscating cell cameras or harrassing their owners.
New York’s Black Sites | The Nation
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As states like Mississippi reject solitary confinement, this “blue” state leads the nation in the use of “disciplinary segregation.” Or as prisoners call it: torture.
With Conviction of Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia Backslides Further | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega had been sentenced to eighteen years in prison under a sweeping and overbroad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation.
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