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The Big Business of Family Detention

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Big Business of Family Detention It's not just alleged terrorists who are suffering from our inhumane treatment of detainees. It's also children. Courtney E. Martin | February 2, 2009 | American Prospect web only When President Barack Obama made it his first act in office to shut down Guantánamo Bay prison, he effectively ended one shameful chapter in our country's embarrassingly large book of human-rights abuses. It was not so much redemption as a reminder that this country has a long, long way to go when it comes to detention, due process, and the Geneva Convention. It's not just alleged terrorists that are suffering from our inhumane treatment. It's also children. The United States is currently holding 30,000 immigrants in detention while they await hearings...continue to full post

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