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Leaning on Jail, City of Immigrants Fills Cells With Its Own

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Maps http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/26/us/1227_DETAIN.html http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/dwnmap December 27, 2008 Leaning on Jail, City of Immigrants Fills Cells With Its Own By NINA BERNSTEIN- NY Times CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. ? Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields at the edge of town. Even when it expanded and added barbed wire, Wyatt was just the backdrop for Little League games, its name stitched on the caps of the team it sponsored. Then people began to disappear: the leader of a prayer group at St. Matthew?s Roman Catholic Church; the father of a second grader at the public charter school; a woman who mopped floors in a Providence courthouse...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 27, 2008 (boomark / email).