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As the RI ACLU prepares to hold a news conference today regarding the Wyatt Detention Center and the death of Jason Ng, the Boston Globe reports on how some other prisons, including the nearby Bristol County Jail, have enhanced their revenue by jailing...
The New York Times continues its strong Rhode Island-based reporting on immigration, using a lengthy front-pager today to highlight the meager returns generated by the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility for its host community of Central Falls, and how...
Some three months after the death of Hiu Lui Ng , a Chinese national, the Rhode Island chapter of the ACLU points to a new court transcript in raising further questions about the case. Relying on a just-released court transcript, the Rhode Island ACLU...
Anchor Rising's Andrew, who made his Phoenix debut last week with a piece on the prospect of making heating oil from algae, nicely captured some of the zeitgeist of last week's Tji page, which features a mini-profile of Joe Bernstein (depicted...
A day after Kathy Gregg raised some pertinent questions about state cleaning contracts, the ACLU sends word that it is suing Governor Carcieri over his executive order on immigration: The Rhode Island ACLU today filed a lawsuit challenging the legality...
As attention turns to the post-Gustav RNC, I want to put in a word for ProJo op-ed contributor Froma Harrop's work out of the DNC in Denver, in part since I took a poke at her here . Whether talking about the unmentioned topic of population growth...
The ProJo's Cynthia Needham has a good overview today tracing Governor Carcieri's journey from being the jobs governor to being the anti-illegal immigration governor. His team disputes any change in focus. Immigration, they say, was always a key...
Talk radio was yesterday abuzz with this story , with hosts like John DePetro supporting the view that Governor Carcieri's approach to illegal immigration in responsible for a sharp decline in the number of students in Central Falls. Matt's theory...
In separate segments, Colonel Brendan Doherty of the Rhode Island State Police and Dennis Grilli, executive director of AFSCME's Council 94 , are the guests this week on WPRI/WNAC-TV's Newsmakers . Tim White fills in as host for the vacationing...
Given Governor Carcieri's steady emphasis on illegal immigrants, it's interesting, isn't it, that it took a chance event to reveal the extent to which undocumented workers were helping to clean state offices? Tucked into Kathy Gregg's...
After some delay, here's what Governor Carcieri has to say: The Department of Administration has initiated an internal review of the two companies involved in the recent ICE action, Falcon and Tri-State, to ensure compliance with state and federal...
Mary Ann Sorrentino published a piece in the Phoenix in June 2007 that seems rather prescient: Last July, the Boston Globe found that the Massachusetts State Police employed janitorial crews staffed overwhelmingly with illegal immigrants. The company...
Today's first post of the day concerns -- what else? -- immigration. A Latina activist who appeared on The John DePetro Show this morning maintained that residents of Central and South America should be identified as "Americans" just as...
Wags used to say that some day there would be an occasion when there's not a casino story on the front of the ProJo. The topic du jour these day, of course, is immigration. One colleague makes a good point. The subjects of yesterday's raids were...
Providence Journal political reporter Scott MacKay's temporary assignment as a political columnist has come to an abrupt end after his Tuesday column cited a disconnect between some politicians' emphasis on illegal immigration and its actual impact...
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