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The one subject I didn't dare raise with Simon Mann as we sat in his hellish African prison? That the despot he'd tried to overthrow was intent on eating his testicles! IA…
It was March 2008 and I had flown from London to interview Britain's most famous soldier of fortune - who died suddenly aged ...
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In Louisiana jails, women's treatment not measuring up, auditors report says
A state legislative auditor's review highlights shortfalls in care for incarcerated women, including a lack of free menstrual ...
ICE Air Has a New Contractor. This State Is Asking How It Will Protect the Detainees on Board.
A letter to the airline from Connecticut’s attorney general cited ProPublica’s reporting on ICE Air flight attendants, who said it was unclear how shackled detainees would get off a plane in an ...
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Profiting off ‘people’s suffering’: Airline set to operate ICE flights faces backlash
Protests are breaking out across the U.S. against Avelo Airlines after it agreed to help the administration carry out deportations.
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Avelo Airlines, a new ICE air contractor, faces backlash in CT
“Can Avelo confirm that it will never operate flights while non-violent passengers are in shackles, handcuffs, waist chains and/or leg irons?” Tong’s April 8 letter asks. “Can Avelo ...
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ICE Air Has a New Contractor. This State Is Asking How It Will Protect the Detainees on Board.
“Can Avelo confirm that it will never operate flights while non-violent passengers are in shackles, handcuffs, waist chains and/or leg irons?” Tong’s April 8 letter asks. “Can Avelo ...
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Low-cost airline launching in Grand Rapids faces backlash over ICE deportation contract
“These are flights where people — men, women and children — are shackled in handcuffs, waist chains and leg irons ... are in shackles, handcuffs, waist chains and/or leg irons and unable ...
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First Fleet Graphic Journal: Betties bring trouble
She was ordered on a pair of leg irons. When she was getting them ... Elizabeth Barber and Elizabeth Thackery together in irons. He shackles Elizabeth Dudgeon and Elizabeth Pulley together in ...
Minnesota Daily16d
U professor’s research impacts treatment of incarcerated women
It was common to shackle pregnant inmates in Minnesota with leg irons, belly chains and handcuffs, Shlafer said. Those practices could harm mothers and babies by increasing risk of injury and ...