West Virginia, like many other states, has experienced a dramatic increase in the prison population over the last few decades. And once people finish serving their sentence, they continue to face punishment for their criminal conviction –confronting many barriers while transitioning to life outside of the prison walls.
Desde 2015, el Congreso de los Estados Unidos ha condicionado en un 25 por ciento la cooperación a los países del Triángulo Norte (Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador), con base en el cumplimiento de diversas condiciones relacionadas a la reducción del flujo migratorio hacia los Estados Unidos, entre otras.
As I stood across the street from the Homestead detention center for immigrant children, I tried to imagine what it must be like for the Central American teenagers incarcerated in this “temporary” shelter on federal land near Miami.