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Editorial: Justice Ignored. The detention of immigrants under Obama continues to be neglectful and abusive

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial: Justice Ignored NY Times Published: July 5, 2009 In January 2007, two immigrant advocacy groups and two former immigration detainees petitioned the Department of Homeland Security to take a simple but important step. They asked it to establish legally enforceable standards for the detention system, a fast-growing network of federal centers, county jails and private prisons that has been plagued by medical neglect and abuse. The petition was ignored, even after reports of several preventable deaths. This was typical for the Bush administration, whose war on illegal immigration was notable for its slipshod cruelty. After waiting more than a year, the advocates sued. More time passed. So did the Bush administration. On Jan. 21, the day after President Obama was inaugurated, Homeland Security told the court it couldn?t meet a deadline set for that month to respond to the petition, or commit to a date by which it would reply...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).