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Teen says juvenile detention center used inmates as 'sex slaves'

09-01-2017 • nypost.com By Kaja Whitehouse

An 18-year-old Bronx resident claims in a new lawsuit that workers at a juvenile detention center have been using their teen jailbirds as "sex slaves."

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Dear America: If You Want to Stop Racism, Tear Down the Drug War--Not Statues

08-16-2017 • thefreethoughtproject.com By Matt Agorist

We cannot change the future by trying to erase the past. Tearing down a statue is not a solution to racism -- ending the drug war is.

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DHS: 23% of all federal prisoners are illegals, just 7 of 42,034 saved from deportation

08-10-2017 • washingtonexaminer.com by Paul Bedard

Nearly one-quarter of all federal inmates are illegal immigrants and virtually all are in deportation proceedings or already face removal orders, according to a new Homeland Security report.