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Dora Schriro to leave ICE to run NY Dept of Correction

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Immigration Official to Run New York?s Jails By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: September 8, 2009 The corrections expert appointed just a month ago to direct an overhaul of the nation?s troubled immigration detention system is leaving the Obama administration to be commissioner of correction for New York City, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Tuesday. The expert, Dora B. Schriro, did not return calls for comment, and the Homeland Security officials who confirmed her departure were not authorized to speak for attribution. But an administration official who discussed the decision with Dr. Schriro said her main reason was the needs of a sick family member in New York, not any policy disagreements with the administration. Immigrant advocates who learned of her imminent departure from a reporter expressed dismay and concern that the ambitious overhaul announced by the Obama administration last month would be delayed, if not derailed, by her loss...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).