Bombshell Bipartisanship

Bipartisanship isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be – an antidote to congressional bickering that prevents Congress from getting anything...

Pecos Prison Town Blues: “Contract Confinement” for BOP’s Immigrant Inmates

Reserved (but empty) parking space at Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas/Photo by Tom Barry   (Latest in the Border Lines’ “Peco...

Pecos Prison Blues: Investing in Immigrant Imprisonment

Protest in front of Reeves County Courthouse/Barry Dec. 2009 ( Part of a continuing Border Lines series on the Reeves County Detention Cente...

Deep in the Heart of West Texas Darkness

(Third in a continuing series on the immigrant prison business in Pecos, Texas.) Outside prison during Jan./Feb riot/Photo by Tom Barry Barr...

Pecos: A Debtor's Prison in West Texas

(The second in the Border Lines series on Pecos Prison Town Blues, following up an article on "A Death in Texas" in the Boston Rev...

Pecos' Prison Town Blues

(The first of a series of articles on the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas. The articles follow up my Death In Texas article ...