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Aviva Stahl

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Aviva Stahl is a Brooklyn-based investigative journalist who writes about prisons, national security, and immigration detention.

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FILE -- From left: Rita Wolf, Purva Bedi, Ranjit Chowdhry, Sanjit De Silva and Harsh Nayyar in Hammaad Chaudry's "An Ordinary Muslim" at the New York Theater Workshop, in New York, Feb. 7, 2018. When the young playwright Chaudry, who grew up in Edinburgh, the son of Pakistani immigrants, was pursuing a master's degree at Columbia University, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner took him under his wing. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

“An Ordinary Muslim” and the Clichés of Culture Clash on Stage

Aviva Stahl

- Mar. 11, 2018

A new play running in New York fixates on the idea that Muslim immigrants are trapped between two worlds, and ends up stumbling into stereotypes.

In this Dec. 10, 2013 photo a prisoner leans against a bed frame in a new unit in the Harris County Jail for gay, bisexual and transgender inmates in Houston. Harris County is one of many jails around the country implementing changes to the way it treats its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population based on new rules that say it is discriminatory, as well as potentially unsafe, to house people based on sexual orientation and gender. Now they hope to house inmates based on where they will be safest, and consider gender identity when making that decision. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Christian Group That Pushed “Bathroom Bills” Is Taking Anti-Transgender Fight to Prisons

Aviva Stahl

- Jan. 18, 2018

Transgender people in prison worry about attempts to roll back protections allowing them to be housed in accordance with their gender identity.

ADELANTO, CA - NOVEMBER 15: An immigrant detainee makes a call from his 'segregation cell' at the Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013 in Adelanto, California. Guards said he had been put in solitary confinement for fighting with another inmate. The facility, the largest and newest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention center in California, houses an average of 1,100 immigrants in custody pending a decision in their immigration cases or awaiting deportation. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group. ICE detains an average of 33,000 undocumented immigrants in more than 400 facilities nationwide. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Extreme Isolation for U.S. Prisoners Shields “Torture” From Public View and Accountability

Aviva Stahl

- Oct. 23, 2017

A new study looks at the U.S. government's use of Special Administrative Measures, which the authors claim violate both U.S. and international law.

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