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Report is critical of immigration detention centers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report is critical of immigration detention centers Gainesville FL Times August 5, 2009 BY STEPHEN GURR Link to report below. Attorney David Kennedy says clients of his who have been held in immigration detention centers in South Georgia and eastern Alabama routinely are denied fundamental rights. "I have had clients who have had no access to phones for extended periods of time. I have had clients being questioned and induced into signing things they did not understand," said Kennedy, a Gainesville immigration lawyer. "I have had clients complain they were stuck in their cells for 23 hours a day. There?s definitely a problem with immigration detention in this country." On the eve of a new immigration detention center opening in Gainesville, a report issued this week by National Immigration Law Center appears to validate Kennedy?s complaints...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).