". . . every point of view does not have equal weight. Lies should not get the same amount of weight as the truth."
--NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling

In the spring of 2004, while the media was reporting on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling was uncovering a shocking prison story right here at home. For more than ten years, U.S. law has stated that non-citizens – both legal and illegal – with criminal records must face deportation, even if they've already served time for their crime. While waiting for deportation, they are held in detention centers inside the U.S. Using sources "on the inside," Zwerdling revealed cases in which detainees in such centers were being abused by prison guards, attacked by dogs, and even dying while awaiting deportation.

Read and listen to Zwerdling's reporting from the original 2004 series as broadcast on All Things Considered and his piece a year later on "The Death of Richard Rust."