Mary Gay Scanlon: “It's going to be all-hands-on-deck to reduce and, I hope, someday eliminate the scourge of gun violence.”

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.

We would be much better off if we were actually spending money to create a functioning immigration system.

I support H.R. 3497, the Medal of Sacrifice Act, which would award medals to honor those who lose their lives while serving as public safety officers. I encourage my colleagues to support it, too.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.