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Jim Ridgeway: Will the U.S. Send Haitian Refugees to Guantanamo?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Once at the Guantanamo facility, the refugees would be supervised by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which oversees the facility and has contracted the Florida-based Geo Group firm to manage day-to-day operations?." From Jim Ridgeway: Unsilent Generation http://unsilentgeneration.com/2010/01/19/will-the-u-s-send-haitian-refugees-to-guantanamo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email Will the U.S. Send Haitian Refugees to Guantanamo? Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:23 PM PST The U.S. prison complex at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is inextricably linked to terrorism and torture in the minds of most Americans today. But not very long ago, it was known for torment of a different kind. In the 1990s, an immigrant detention center at Guantanamo served as a holding pen for undocumented migrants from the Caribbean who were caught trying to enter the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).