Seth Freed wessler
Recent Work
The Costs of the Confederacy
Taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology — in the last decade alone.
By Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler in Smithsonian Magazine
The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’
U.S. Coast Guard is shackling low-level smugglers on ships for weeks in international waters.
Donald Trump’s Looming Mass Criminalization
The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals — and he’ll have the tools to do so on day one.
The Feds Will Shut Down the Troubled Private Prison in a ‘Nation’ Investigation
Following a Nation investigation into lax medical care, the Justice Department is finally moving to end its reliance on for-profit prison operators. By Seth Freed Wessler in The Nation.
Federal Officials Ignored Years of Internal Warnings About Deaths at Private Prisons
The facility is among several in which our reporting has uncovered dozens of deaths that involved substandard medical care. By Seth Freed Wessler in The Nation.
‘This Man Will Almost Certainly Die’
Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme continues.By Seth Freed Wessler in The Nation.
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