opinion
‘NO WAY TO PRACTICE LAW’
A tale of two courts emerges from the Trump administration’s mass incarceration of immigrants in the Deep South.
Tim Healy is a former Newsday editor who most recently handled data journalism projects.
THE OUTER LIMIT
Detainees can be held for weeks or months before seeing a judge. The Justice Department gave “the word of the agency under penalty of perjury” that it would fix that—but only in NY
DRAGNET
Starting in 2017, the agency went from freeing nearly half of low-risk detainees in New York to under 4 percent.
‘ALL RIGHT, STOP’
“It’s basically like the same problem with putting quotas on police officers for tickets.”