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Plan to Upgrade New Jersey Jail Into Model for Immigrant Detention Centers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Federal immigration officials have said they expect demand for bed space in jails around the country to increase in coming months and years, in part because of Secure Communities, a new enforcement program that has already contributed to a surge in deportations. The program, which allows federal officers to check the immigration status of everyone booked into a local or county jail, is being rolled out state by state and is expected to be in place across the country by 2013." Plan to Upgrade New Jersey Jail Into Model for Immigrant Detention Centers By KIRK SEMPLE January 27, 2011 NY Times For officials of Essex County, N.J., it promises to be a potential moneymaker in struggling Newark: a proposed upgrading and extension of the county jail so it would hold hundreds more immigrants than it does now...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).