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  • Texas County Jails and the Hidden System of Pre-Trial Torture

    Texas County Jails and the Hidden System of Pre-Trial Torture By LeRoy NellisAustin, Texas What’s happening inside Texas county jails is not a series of isolated abuses.It is a system. Over the past two decades, Texas county jails have quietly transformed from short-term holding facilities into coercive pressure chambers for people who have not been…

  • The Digital Black Site: When Law Enforcement Outsourced the Constitution

    There was a time when constitutional violations required human effort. A bad cop. A corrupt prosecutor. A forged document. Today, the system doesn’t need villains—it needs vendors. Across the United States, law enforcement agencies have quietly built what can only be described as a digital black site—an ecosystem where artificial intelligence, private data contractors, and…