Meg Anderson
Meg Anderson is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. She covers criminal justice issues, including gun violence in America and its solutions; conditions in prisons and detention centers; how police officers do their jobs; and how the criminal legal system treats the nation's most vulnerable. Previously, as part of NPR's Investigations team, she reported on delays in medical care within the federal Bureau of Prisons and served as a producer on the series Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. That series won a Peabody award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. She has also reported for NPR's politics and education desks, and for WAMU, the local Member station in Washington, D.C. She is based in the Midwest.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to purchase high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain. Immigrant advocates are concerned.
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The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists. -
The DOJ is offering state and local police $3 billion to cooperate with ICE on federal immigration enforcement, part of a broader effort to expand the administration's mass deportation campaign.
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The ICE officer who shot and killed a man in Maine had a history of domestic abuse and mental health issues. Policing experts say these red flags should have come up in the hiring process.
