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ICE to terminate agreement to house detainees at Wyatt RI Detention Facility

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

ICE to terminate agreement to house detainees at Wyatt Detention Facility January 15, 2009 http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0901/090115washington.htm WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has notified the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation of the agency's intention to terminate the agreement to house detainees at the Donald Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island. ICE will terminate the agreement effective 60 days from Friday, January 16, 2009. Due to an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Hiu Lui Ng at Wyatt, ICE took precautions and promptly ceased sending additional detainees to the Wyatt contract facility and quickly relocated the remaining 153 ICE detainees from the facility in December 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).