Immigration Detention

10/27/2011
End ICE Abuse

Locked Up with No End in Sight

By Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU of Southern California at 3:19pm

Rev. Raymond Soeoth spent 2 1/2 years in immigration detention because our government would not give him a 15-minute bond hearing before a judge.

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10/26/2011
Prison Rape Elimination Act

Battling Prison Rape: Immigration Detainees Deserve Protection, Too

By Joanne Lin, Washington Legislative Office at 3:02pm

Excluding immigration detention from prison rape standards that prevent, detect and respond to sexual assault in custody is unjustifiable and unconscionable.

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10/25/2011
Prison Rape Elimination Act

Immigration Detainees Fear Rape and Death

By Lisa Graybill, ACLU of Texas at 5:45pm

Government documents obtained by the ACLU contain nearly 200 allegations of sexual abuse of immigration detainees jailed at detention facilities across the nation.

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10/24/2011
End ICE Abuse

Immigration Detention: A Death Sentence for Far Too Many

By Will Matthews, ACLU of Northern California at 2:35pm

Being needlessly detained should never turn into a death sentence.

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10/21/2011
End ICE Abuse

"I Was Scared for My Life": Trapped in Detention With a Mental Disability

By Sarah Mehta, Fellow, Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU at 4:23pm

Thousands of immigrant detainees with mental disabilities are housed in remote detention facilities around the country, far from professional medical services and the contact and care of their families.

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10/20/2011
End ICE Abuse

Ending The Laws That Fuel Mass Detention and Deportation

By Judy Rabinovitz, Immigrants' Rights Project at 3:00pm

The Department of Homeland Security assumes that mass detention is the key to immigration enforcement. But in fact, our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of confinement at massive costs to American taxpayers. Throughout the next two weeks, check back daily for posts about the costs of immigration detention, both human and fiscal, and what needs to be done to ensure fair and humane policy.

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10/19/2011
End ICE Abuse

The Tragic Costs of Immigration Detention

By Michael Tan, Staff Attorney, Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU at 11:12am

This week, the ACLU Blog of Rights launched a 10-day blog series about the costs of immigration detention, both human and fiscal, and what needs to be done to ensure fair and humane policy.

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10/18/2011
End ICE Abuse

Lost in Immigration Detention

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 4:00pm

Tonight at 9 p.m. EDT, Frontline on PBS takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration's immigration policies and the hidden world of immigration detention.

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10/17/2011
End ICE Abuse

Lost in Detention

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:35pm

On Tuesday, October 18, Frontline takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration's immigration policies and the hidden world of immigration detention.

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09/20/2011
Immigration Detention

A Step in the Right Direction: Death In Custody Reporting Act to be Voted on in the House

By Sandhya Bathija, Washington Legislative Office at 4:28pm

Sandra M. Kenley died in an immigration detention facility after spending seven weeks asking for blood pressure medicine she never received.

Young Sook Kim, a Korean woman being held in an immigration detention facility, pleaded for medical care for weeks before she was finally taken to the hospital — after her eyes turned yellow. She died of pancreatic cancer the next day.

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