#Detention

My paper on why the UK reduced its use of immigration detention by 60%, even before Covid, when across the world governments are detaining more migrantshttp://detentionforum.org.uk/2020/09/02/how-the-uk-turned-away-from-immigration-detentio

In a public statement, ICE claims that it does not have to report positive COVID tests for private prison company employes who run immigration detention centers.https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241791511.html 3/At last count

One of the most detailed eyewitness accounts of concentration camps and detention centers is now available in English. It is a translation of Erbaqyt's Atajurt interview. A man’s 2-year journey

What's reported at Irwin has been happening for a long time. In 2016, I wrote a report regarding ICE detention in the South--Irwin was notable for the fact that detainees

National Immigrant Justice Center

We call on policy makers and elected officials to take immediate and dramatic steps toward ending immigration detention. Here are 5 reasons why: The current detention system is historically anomalous,

LorenaSGonzalez

Dear @SDSheriff — I’d like to know the justification for ticketing protestors in their cars at the Otay Mesa Detention Center last week, while coddling those in Encinitas protesting by

COVID-19 presents the first challenge to Australia's National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and its OPCAT obligations. While the NPM obligations do not formally commence until 2022, the Commonwealth Ombudsman's NPM role

Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Tomorrow is the deadline for ICE to free the children in its detention facilities. The government is threatening #FamilySeparation, again, even though ICE has the authority to free children with

The Intercept is out with an astonishing report profiling a whistleblower who served as a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center. The article should be damning on its own.

1/ A couple thoughts on the push for universal representation for immigrants: 1) legal counsel is harm reduction and only goes so far as the law allows, which is sadly

Los Angeles Times

Exclusive: More women have come forward to allege medical abuse and forced sterilization by Dr. Mahendra Amin, the primary gynecologist for an immigrant detention center in Georgia.https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-10-22/women-all

My god, this story: Student at Groves HS in Birmingham, Mi, is incarcerated in a juvenile facility on the alleged probation violation of not keeping up with her online schoolwork

Brooke Binkowski

So now are all the reporters who argued with me that these weren't "really" concentration camps because people weren't dying in them going to admit how fucking horribly wrong you

“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody...That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector.”Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at #ICE Facility h/t @brooklynmarie https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/l

Q about calling for shutdown of individual detention centers posed on the "Should Immigration Detention be Abolished?" panel for @UCLAImmigration #CILP100 much to say on this, first I'll share an

“Revisit” domicile law?Lift curbs on Internet? “LET” political process be run? Is that all what you are looking for in this reconciliation?If I am not reading wrong,you are basically asking