Medical Claims and Malpractice at West Texas Immigrant Prison

Part II PNA's Medical Gulag Physicians Network Association (PNA), a Lubbock-based company that calls itself a leader in correctional ...

Medical Claims and Malpractice in West Texas Immigrant Prison Part I

The failure of the Reeves County Detention Center in West Texas to provide adequate medical care spurred immigrant inmates to occupy the pri...

Immigrant Inmates Caught in Outsourcing Complex

(Below is an excerpt of a new article on immigrant prisons. Entire article is at: http://sites.google.com/site/transborderproject/immigrant-...

Imprisoned Immigrants Riot, Prison Contract Missing

Immigrants got both the federal government and corporate America started in prisoner outsourcing business. That was in the early 1980s durin...

Smoke and Shadows in a West Texas Prison Town

It's a sad and deplorable. It's part of our national reality, though. As immigrant prisoners repeatedly riot at the Reeves County De...

Prison Dreams in Pecos

The Reeves County Detention Center started burning again on Wednesday night, and the billowing clouds of smoke could be seen for many miles ...

Border Patrol Proliferation

Perhaps nowhere else on the border is the increase in the number of agents so striking as in Ft. Hancock. Border patrol vehicles overflow in...

America's Frontline is Abuzz

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks set off the Bush administration’s “Global War on Terrorism” and a Border Patrol hiring frenzy that continues ...

A Homeland Security Colony

Dee Torres sees history in the making in the West Texas borderlands. The elementary school teacher wants to be part of the history of the bo...

Border Boom Times at Ft. Hancock

Ft. Hancock is not a typical boom town. Not the typical town at all. In fact, it isn’t really a town, merely a census designated place (CD...

The Newly Fortified Ft. Hancock

(This is the first in a series of reports on the Texas-New Mexico-Chihuahua borderlands.) The river runs slow and shallow through the Chihua...