Shannon Dooling

Boston

Investigative Reporter at WBUR-FM (Boston, MA)

investigative reporter/storyteller @WBUR @NPR @propublica | teaching @ComatBU | #immigration + #criminaljustice = my jam but I’ll dig anywhere |[email protected]

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From Tijuana to Mass., asylum seekers and their families face uncertainty and desperation

1 month ago | wbur.org | Shannon Dooling

TIJUANA, Mexico — An estimated 1,500 men, women and children live in one of the city's largest homeless shelters, a sprawling patchwork of repurposed buildings and makeshift encampments with only about a dozen toilets and 10 showers across the entire facility. Inside one of the main buildings, on a recent day in March, Kathy Kruger Castro, a supervising attorney with the nonprofit Al Otro Lado, called out to a crowd of migrants to announce that day’s free legal clinic was now open.
Plymouth jail complaints reveal pattern of abuse against ICE detainees, report claims

Sep 15, 2024 | wbur.org | Shannon Dooling

Citing two decades-worth of complaints about overcrowding, inadequate health care and other mistreatment, a new report alleges Plymouth County Correctional Facility staffers engaged in a pattern of abuse against immigrant detainees. Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts and Boston University School of Law’s Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program based their report, released Monday, on records of complaints and violations dating as far back as 2002.