Justice in the Shadows | Part 2 — Secret prisoners

Detainees struggle to be heard

With rights lacking, even for those with no record of crime, immigrants languish as pawns in a law enforcement system that is defined by secrecy.

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Death of a detainee

One woman’s medical tragedy highlights the plight of thousands neglected in immigration system jails.

Part 1 — Secret Criminals

Many freed criminals strike again

The vast and secretive US prison system for immigrants, stymied when it tries to deport some criminals, has quietly released thousands, including killers.

Hopes rise for a deal on tax rates

More Republicans are imagining what an agreement that includes tax hikes on the wealthy might look like, rather than digging in against any rate increase.

Dan Shaughnessy

Texans have no chance vs. Patriots

The Texans are an overrated, unproven house of cards, waiting for their dope slap of reality at Gillette Stadium.

Latest news

Judge questions individual jurors in Mattapan case

In an unusual move, the judge presiding over the retrial of quadruple murder suspect Dwayne Moore has called a series of jurors in to be questioned.

Mass. lags on pay for women in the US

Despite the state’s historic leadership on pay equity, the gap between men’s and women’s salaries here is now among the biggest in the country.

Heads of 4 colleges had sizable 2010 pay hikes

Presidents at Bentley, Curry, Endicott, and Hampshire all received compensation increases of at least 24 percent.

Don’t split siblings by school, say Boston parents

Some parents, worried that changes to the way Boston assigns students to schools could split apart siblings, are pushing for a policy that would keep families together.

At 85, she’s never out of fashion

No matter where she goes, Marilyn Riseman commands attention from fellow tastemakers.

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Ethan Gagnon, a student at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, used a digital Braille typewriter.

Braille gets a digital update

Joy Griffin, 78, a retired teacher, lives at Linden Ponds in Hingham. “They went through so much more than I did,” Griffith says of older lesbians. “I was right on the edge where progress was made.”

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Learning how to care for LGBT seniors

On tour marking the band’s 50 years together, the Rolling Stones played Barclays Center in New York Saturday night.

Music Review

50 years in, Stones still a gas, gas, gas

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Above: Jessica Chastain in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Boston film critics pick ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ as year’s best

Recognized for the connections he’s built with his patients, Dr. John Zawacki credits his father for spurring his compassionate approach to health care.

Q & A

Compassionate care in respect for patients

New England Compounding was located in the same Framingham complex as a business owned by his wife’s family.

Little scrutiny as drug compounder expanded

Meet the Fall All-Scholastics

Ideas

The end of days?

Director Peter Jackson.

‘The Hobbit’ emerges

Holiday gift guide

Among those who have significantly influenced the contemporary television landscape (from top): director Robert Altman, “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling, author Charles Dickens, mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest, “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt, vaudevillians like Fannie Brice, author Edgar Allan Poe, screenwriter Nora Ephron, “Sherlock Holmes” creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and founding Surrealist, Andre Breton.

The towers of TV

Sports

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Houston coach Gary Kubiak, right, in his seventh season with the team, led the Texans to their first playoff spot last year.

Texans have climbed to the top of NFL

A decade after entering the league, Houston has waded through many losing seasons and finally has a chance to become part of the NFL elite.

Metro

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A Taunton Police team on Sunday studied the area where two teens died and four other young people were injured.

2 teens killed, 4 hurt in Taunton car accident

The victims were all Taunton residents, and none were wearing seat belts.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Qatar arms deals expose limits of US

Tech Lab Plus

Cheap Nikon Coolpix takes classy shots

Matt Schaub and the Texans enter Monday’s game with an 11-1 record.

Dan Shaughnessy

Texans have no chance

Adrian Walker

Worthy battle ends in victory

John E. Sununu

Best energy policy? None

Palestinian construction workers in the Jewish settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, overlooking the area known as E-1 where Israel intends to build thousands of housing units.

James Carroll

Israel undermines its standing

CyPhy Works says its drones can’t be jammed by an enemy.

Innovation Economy

SolidWorks team reunites for new venture

Shohreh Moldenhauer and her son, Robert, at Children’s Hospital.

Kevin Cullen

A miracle story that needs just one more

Joan Vennochi

The Kevin White legacy after release of FBI files

Jeff Jacoby

Powerball’s other big winner: the taxman

Christopher L. Gasper

Texans must prove themselves against Patriots

Yvonne Abraham

Ban tackle football for players under 14

Nation & World

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A demonstrator chanted slogans on a newly built barrier in front of soldiers guarding the presidential palace in Cairo.

Egypt leader’s concessions fail to appease rivals

Protesters registered fresh anger against Mohammed Morsi’s plan to hold a referendum on an Islamist-backed draft constitution.

Politics

Union workers chanted at a demonstration in the Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich., on Thursday. The crowd walked in during lawmakers’ debate of the right-to work bill.

Organized labor plans right-to-work offensive

Democrats and organized labor intend to make enactment of right-to-work laws as uncomfortable as possible.

Business

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Browser companies are battling to gain the allegiance of businesses and consumers on tablets and smartphones. Above, the Rockmelt browser in use on an iPad.

Latest browser war focuses on mobile devices

Browser companies are battling to gain the allegiance of businesses and consumers on tablets and smartphones.

Arts

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Book Review

In “Dora: A Headcase,” Lidia Yuknavitch gives voice to a Freud patient who famously couldn’t speak, and presents her as a radical everywoman.

‘Dora: A Headcase’ by Lidia Yuknavitch

Yuknavitch gives voice to a teenage Freud patient who famously couldn’t speak, and presents her as a radical everywoman.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Are e-visits coming to a doctor near you?

Intermountain Healthcare is testing virtual health care visits, in which patients chat with a doctor from their iPhone or laptop.

Diversity Boston

Diversity Boston

Photographed in Boston’s Paul Revere Park, the Rev. Eric Markman of Hartford Street Presbyterian Church (left), Priti Rao of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, and Ed Walker of Independent Consultants of Education are among a devoted group of diversty champions.

Diversity champions

From fields as different as banking, education, politics, health care, and the clergy, these men and women are passionately committed to leveling the playing field for all in Massachusetts.

Magazine

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The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?

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5 inspired rooms

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Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter

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Nov 18, 2012

7 holiday styles that shine

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