Figure 1: Covers of Elliott Young and Kristina Shull's books: Forever Prisoners and Detention Empire, respectively. By Tina Shull and Elliott Young Elliott Young’s book Forever Prisoners tells the stories of migrants caught in the jaws of the US immigration bureaucracy…
Figure 1: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., one of only two mental asylums ever operated by the U.S. federal government (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) By Jeremy Peschard In recent years, politicians in the United States have paid significant attention to two major political issues: firstly, the increased number of…