This photo from May 2018 shows Cyntoia Brown at her clemency hearing at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville, Tenn. On Jan. 7, 2019, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted executive clemency to Brown, serving a life sentence for a murder that happened after she was forced into sex work. (Lacy Atkins /The Tennessean via AP, Pool, File)

Clemency for Cyntoia Brown was long overdue

Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency for killing a man when she was a teenager and forced into the sex trade. The case showed why the justice system must stop punishing women for defending themselves.
El 19 de octubre de 2018, cientos de migrantes hondureños tratan de cruzar la frontera hacia México, en Tecun Uman, Guatemala. Los migrantes rompieron las puertas en el cruce fronterizo y comenzaron a correr hacia el puente que allí comunica Guatemala con México. AP Photo/Oliver de Ros

El origen de la caravana de migrantes

Una caravana de migrantes de casi 7.000 personas que salieron de Guatemala y Honduras se dirige hacia el norte, hacia Estados Unidos. Las razones por las que dejan atrás su tierra son complejas, pero tienen que ver con una historia de violencia tras la que también está Estados Unidos.
A new group of Central American migrants walk past Mexican Federal Police after wading across the Suchiate River, that connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Why does the migrant ‘caravan’ exist? And how did it come to be?

A migrant caravan of almost 7,000 people who left Guatemala and Honduras is heading north towards the United States. The reasons they are leaving are complex but involve a U.S.-backed violent history.
Sirley Silveira Paixao, an immigrant from Brazil seeking asylum, kisses her 10-year-old son Diego Magalhaes, after he is released from immigration detention in Chicago on July 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Drugging detained children is like using a chemical straitjacket

Psychotropic medication is ‘pharmaceutical violence’ against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.

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