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Report Faults Treatment of Women Held at Immigration Centers in AZ

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report Faults Treatment of Women Held at Immigration Centers By DAN FROSCH Published: January 20, 2009 Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States. The study, which federal immigration officials criticized as narrow and unsubstantiated, was conducted from August 2007 to August 2008 by the Southwest Institute of Research on Women and the James E. Rogers College of Law, both at the University of Arizona. It was released Jan. 13. Researchers examined the conditions facing women in the process of deportation proceedings at three federal immigration centers in Arizona...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).