Katherine Peeler is a pediatric critical care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA, where she is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is additionally a member of the faculties of HMS’s Center for Bioethics and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Dr. Peeler engages students in […]| PHR
Executive Summary The United States maintains the world’s largest immigration detention system, detaining tens of thousands of people in a network of facilities, including those managed by private prison corporations, county jails, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). At the time of […]| PHR
The use of solitary confinement in U.S. immigration detention has risen at an alarming rate, with unprecedented numbers of immigrants held in isolation.| PHR
Arevik Avedian is a Lecturer on Law and Director of Empirical Research Services at Harvard Law School. Professor Avedian’s teaching and research interests center around empirical law. Before joining HLS, she taught at University of California, Riverside and California State University, Fullerton. Professor Avedian holds a Ph.D. in world politics and methods and a M.A. […]| Harvard Law School