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ACLU Massachusetts: Detention and Deportation in the Age of ICE: Immigrants and Human Rights in Massachusetts

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Detention and Deportation in the Age of ICE: Immigrants and Human Rights in Massachusetts ACLU Massachusetts http://www.aclum.org/ice/ Introduction EVERY DAY IN MASSACHUSETTS, approximately 800 immigrants and asylum-seekers are in detention in county jails around the state waiting to be deported or fighting a legal battle to stay in the country. None of those persons are serving sentences for having committed a crime. They have not been judged by a jury of their peers. Instead, they are ?civil detainees? held because they have overstayed a visa, are awaiting a decision on asylum, or are otherwise subject to deportation. Yet they spend months, and sometimes years, in cells side-by-side with sentenced criminals, not knowing when they will be allowed to leave...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).