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Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed By Bipartisan Study Group and Human Rights Watch

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: December 2, 2009 NY Times A growing number of noncitizens are being held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that lacks basic fairness, a bipartisan study group and a human rights organization concluded in reports released jointly on Wednesday. Confirmation of some of their conclusions came separately from the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in an investigation that found detainee transfers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were so haphazard that some arrived at a new center without having been served a notice of why they were being held, or despite a high probability of being granted bond, or with pending criminal prosecutions or arrest warrants in the previous jurisdiction...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).