ICE agents clearing a path for their vehicles on June 24, 2025, outside 630 Sansome St. Photo Frankie Duryea Solinsky. On Friday, a 20-year-old asylum seeker from Colombia walked into immigration ...

"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

DANVERS, Mass. -- In real estate, not even spooky trumps location. Across the nation, former state hospitals for the mentally ill -- with dated names like ''lunatic asylum'' -- are being converted ...

GENEVA - UNHCR on Friday welcomed the adoption of a European Union directive on reception conditions for asylum seekers, saying it ensures that most asylum seekers will receive a uniform package of ...

At least one of the people arrested in San Francisco immigration court in May now faces deportation after federal attorneys had his case transferred to a judge in San Bernardino County, one with a ...

Inside the old asylum, plaster peeled from mottled walls and holes gaped in the ceiling. Some rooms held battered bed frames or operating tables. In one basement room, empty aside from a single chair, ...