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Detention Story from Eloy, Arizona

By immigrationprof

The Spring 2006 issue of La Línea, the newsletter of the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project has a fascinating story about detention.   An Iranian client of the Project, soon to graduate from law school, tells his interesting yet troubling story of detention in Eloy, Arizona.  Released from Eloy in 2003, he ends with the following:

I wonder what the Supreme Court judges would think if they had to spend a week in Eloy, wondering when or if they would get out? Would they still consider endless months at Eloy not punishment?

Click here to see the full story.

KJ