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Margo Schlanger

Margo Schlanger is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and the former Department of Homeland Security Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She helped to draft the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners.

  • A visitor stands next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Friends of Friendship Park on Feb. 4, 2017 in San Ysidro, California. Friends and families gather at Friends of Friendship Park for several hours on Saturdays and Sundays on the U.S. side of the border fence along Tijuana. Friends of Friendship Park allows public access to the park on the U.S. side of the border for four hours on weekend days for friends and families separated by deportation or by mixed immigration status to communicate through the fence.
    A visitor stands next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Friends of Friendship Park on Feb. 4, 2017 in San Ysidro, California. Friends and families gather at Friends of Friendship Park for several hours on Saturdays and Sundays on the U.S. side of the border fence along Tijuana. Friends of Friendship Park allows public access to the park on the U.S. side of the border for four hours on weekend days for friends and families separated by deportation or by mixed immigration status to communicate through the fence.
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    Illegal Immigration and the Book of Ruth

    Shavuot offers an important lesson for politics today

    byMargo Schlanger
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    In the Story of Jonah, an Urgent Lesson About the Dangers of Solitary Confinement

    Isolation didn’t help Jonah find redemption inside the whale. It isn’t helping thousands of American prisoners today, either.

    byMargo Schlanger
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