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CCA Immigrant Detention: Immigration agency, contractors are accused of mistreating detainees

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U-T SPECIAL REPORT graphs and other links at this URL: Immigrant detention budget soars The number of people held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jumped 36 percent since 2005, when the agency held a daily average of 19,718 detainees, who include illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and legal U.S. residents facing deportation. By the end of 2007, that number had grown to 30,881. At the end of last year, 13 percent of ICE detainees were held in agency facilities. Seventeen percent were in private facilities that contract directly with ICE; 21 percent were in facilities contracted from local governments, usually with the county acting as middleman for a private company. An additional 46 percent were in county jails, where ICE rents beds, and a handful in other facilities, including rented federal prison space...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).