Kree Paw heard her mother’s stories of hiding from oppressive Burmese soldiers in the country’s thick jungles. Paw, 28, grew up in a refugee camp in Thailand. Her mother described fleeing their village in Burma, also known as Myanmar, each time soldiers came through.

Over the summer, experts began noticing the coronavirus didn’t seem to spread among the U.S. homeless population as much as many feared. But it’s still having an impact: The number of homeless people dying this year may be on the rise.

Kate Watkins remembers reading an article about Lipscomb University’s prison education program in 2007 when she was a graduate student there. The program brought classes and traditional students from the Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., into a nearby women’s prison so inmates could participate.

WASHINGTON—With the United States on track to accept the lowest yearly number of refugees since 1975, a bipartisan group of former executive branch officials asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week to make room for more.

Since 2010, Dawn Wooten has worked off and on as a licensed practical nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. On Sept. 14, four advocacy organizations filed a complaint on behalf of Wooten and immigrants held there, asking the Department of Homeland Security inspector general to investigate the facility—and others operated by the same private company—for unsafe conditions.

A decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could leave tens of thousands of registered voters unable to participate in November’s election. The court ruled 6-4 to uphold a state regulation requiring former felons to pay all outstanding fines before they can cast a ballot.

A single mom with two small children fled Guatemala after her politically connected former boss repeatedly raped her, made her have an abortion, and continued threatening her. She trekked to the U.S.-Mexico border and applied for asylum on April 3, according to a federal lawsuit.