Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security say they turned up no evidence of what they call "inappropriate sexual relationships" between detention officers and women detained in a privately operated family immigration detention facility in Texas, according to a report released Friday.
Last week, Rewire met with six of the 17 Salvadoran women imprisoned for what amount to pregnancy complications. The women discussed the challenges they face, including harassment from other inmates and overcrowded conditions.
On this episode of Reality Cast, Rebecca Traister digs into how much of a disaster our maternity leave policies are in this country. In another segment, host Amanda Marcotte discusses the anti-sexist ads that aired during the Super Bowl, and looks at whether anti-vaccination is going to be the next anti-abortion movement.
Despite some facile language about "choice" from anti-vaxxers and individual beliefs held among some of them, the reality is that the anti-vaccination movement has way more in common with those trying to restrict abortion access.
A decision Tuesday overturns a lower court ruling that said attorneys for the state were precluded by earlier court rulings from defending two recent parental involvement statutes.
