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ICE will revamp prisons for holding immigrant families

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Barbara Hines, an attorney who oversees the University of Texas immigration law clinic and was one of the first nonprofit attorneys to visit the Hutto facility, praised ICE's addition of monitors to oversee daily operations at larger immigration facilities. ?Having ICE monitors in prisons is a good step forward because I think in the last couple years, the expansion of detention has gotten out of control, leading to deaths and a lack of medical care,? Hines said. ?But I don't think ICE is capable of policing itself.?" ICE will revamp detainee system Policy of using converted prisons to hold families of illegal immigrants is on its way out By SUSAN CARROLL and STEWART POWELL HOUSTON CHRONICLE Aug. 7, 2009, Three years ago, immigrant families sent to a Central Texas immigration detention center found themselves at a converted prison rimmed in razor wire...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).