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Health and Safety Issues at Detention Facilities

By immigrationprof

The New York Times reports that authorities failed to maintain adequate health and safety standards for some of the suspected illegal immigrants housed at five detention centers, according to an audit report by the Homeland Security department’s inspector general.  Click here for the story.

This is no small issue.  detention has become much more common since the 1996 immigration reforms greatly expanded mandatory detention.  For a readable book on immigrant detention, see Mark Dow, American Gulag (2004).

KJ