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 NJCRDC Events

Launch of
Voices of the Disappeared:
An Investigative Report on New Jersey Immigrant Detentions

Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


Paul Robeson Center
Rutgers Newark


"Voices of the Disappeared" provides first-hand accounts of the inhumane conditions suffered by hundreds of immigrant detainees in county jails across New Jersey drawing from their letters and activist work both inside and outside the jails.

For further information and directions click here.


 Other Events
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In The News
Sep. 12, 2007
New Jersey voices added to U.S. report

Herald News
Story

Jun. 26, 2007
New Scrutiny as Immigrants Die in Custody

New York Times
Story

Jun. 17, 2007
US judge says jail officials can force-feed starving immigration detainee

PR-inside,com (AP)
Story

Jun. 16, 2007
Judge allows force-feeding of hunger-striking inmate

Star-Ledger
Story

May. 15, 2007
U.N. official's Monmouth jail visit canceled

HERALD NEWS
Story

Mar. 12, 2007
Immigrants caught in legal limbo

Home News Tribune (STAFF WRITER)
Story

Mar. 8, 2007
Patrick wants detainees from immigration raid kept in Mass.

Worcester Telegram (Associated Press)
Story

Feb. 23, 2007
One Immigrant Family’s Hopes Lead to a Jail Cell Suicide

The New York Times
Story

Feb. 14, 2007
Bergen detainee commits suicide

The Record (Staff writer)
Story

Feb. 9, 2007
Audit Finds Multiple Abuses in Immigration Jails

Inter Press Service News Agency
Story

Jan. 26, 2007
Passaic County jail officials deny allegations

Herald News
Story

Jan. 19, 2007
Detainee report doesn't fix the problem

Herald News
Story

Jan. 17, 2007
Facility lax in treatment of detainees, report finds

Hearld News (Staff writer)
Story

Jan. 17, 2007
Immigration Centers Fail Health Checks

The New York Times (AP)
Story

Dec. 20, 2006
Jail stops housing immigration detainees

St. Paul Pioneer Press
Story

Nov. 15, 2006
Town settles suit on Latino laborers

Star-Ledger (STAFF WRITER)
Story

May. 5, 2006
South Texas Hold 'Em

The Texas Observer
Story

Apr. 17, 2006
AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

Observer
Story

Apr. 3, 2006
9/11 Detainees in New Jersey Say They Were Abused With Dogs

The New York Times
Story

Mar. 1, 2006
U.S. Agrees to Pay Egyptian Man $300K For Post-9/11 Detention in Unprecedented Settlement

Democracy Now
Interview

Feb. 22, 2006
Citing subpar meals, service, sheriff fires jail's food provider

Herald News
Story

Jan. 23, 2006
Held in 9/11 Net, Muslims Return to Accuse U.S.

The New York Times
Story

Jan. 15, 2006
Countrovery surrounds detainees

Herald News
Story

Jan. 14, 2006
Victory at Passaic

Counterpunch
Article

Jan. 10, 2006
Rioting prisoners weren't detainees, says official

Herald News
Story

Jan. 9, 2006
Protest outside, 3 arrests inside jail

Herald News
Story

Jan. 6, 2006
Federal immigration detainees petition for release

The Associated Press (News Flash)
Story

Jan. 3, 2006
A jail in Passaic County, New Jersey, is pulling the plug on one of the largest illegal alien detention programs in the country.

CNN (Lou Dobbs Tonight --- scroll about half-way down to get to the story)
Story

Dec. 31, 2005
Detainees at jail decry 'retaliation'

Herald News
Story

Dec. 29, 2005
Passaic Jail ends housing immigrant detainees

Herald News
Story

Dec. 29, 2005
Passaic to stop holding immigrant detainees at jail

The Star-Ledger
Story

Dec. 29, 2005
Passaic County Jail no longer will house immigrant detainees

The Associated Press
Story

Dec. 23, 2005
Jail Officials Deny Beating

Herald News
Story

Dec. 14, 2005
Lawmakers Seek Probe into Alien Detainee's Death

National Public Radio (All Things Considered)
Story

Dec. 5, 2005
The Death of Richard Rust

National Public Radio (All Things Considered)
Story

Oct. 30, 2005
In City Jails a Question of Force

The New York Times
Story

Oct. 19, 2005
Jail ends kosher and halal meals

Herald News
Story

Oct. 1, 2005
Showdown at Sheriff's Plaza

Counterpunch
Story

Sep. 30, 2005
Reckless NJ Police Convoy Escapes VA Justice

theNewpaper.com (A journal of the politics of driving)
Article

Aug. 26, 2005
Speziale may allow review of jail conditions to resume

Herald News
Story

Aug. 26, 2005
Sheriff considers lifting ban on federal auditors at jail

Herald News
Story

Aug. 26, 2005
Detainee Justice

Bergen County Record
Op-Ed

Aug. 24, 2005
2 men say Passiac Jail denied them AIDS drugs

Herald News
Story

Aug. 17, 2005
Speziale boots feds probing alleged abuse of detainees

Herald News
Story

Jul. 20, 2005
Judge Dread

Counterpunch
Story

Jun. 29, 2005
Jail officials deny beating of immigration detainee

Herald News
Story

Jun. 9, 2005
America’s internal “gulag”-the imprisonment of immigrants in the US

World Socialist Web Site
Story

Jun. 3, 2005
Federal detainees, county headaches

The Star-Ledger (NJ.com)
Story

Apr. 26, 2005
Nowhere to go

Herald News
Story

Mar. 16, 2005
Immigrant detainee breaks fast in Passaic

Herald News
Story