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November, 2012
Tammy Gaultney’s first stint in jail came when she was 36 years old. A pimp had brought her from her hometown in Muskegan, Mich., to Santa Monica, Calif., where she was arrested and charged with prostitution. “Drugs led me to do things I never thought I would do,” Gaultney said. In the six years since her first arrest, she has been charged with prostitution 37 times across four states.“I lost my...
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July, 2012
When reading a 2006 Massachusetts state audit of public housing, lawyers at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute noticed a concerning figure in the appendix: More than 1,000 of the state’s 45,600 public housing units were sitting empty for more than two months, three times the state limit of 21 days.“That was a number that made us stand up and look,” said Annette Duke, staff attorney for the...
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July, 2012
The Rev. José Landaverde sits cross-legged in front of the glass building at 525 W. Van Buren St., his back pressed against the wheel of a police officer’s bicycle, arms linked with two women. There is no sign that marks the building as an immigration court, but Landaverde knows the building well, having attended hundreds of deportation hearings on the fifth floor. A sign scribbled in...
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