A Broken System: Confidential Reports Reveal Failures in U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 25, 2009
ANNOTATION: "This report presents the first-ever system-wide look at the federal government's compliance with its own standards regulating immigrant detention facilities . . . " (p. vi). Sections following an executive summary include: introduction; the ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) standards monitoring system; visitation; recreation; telephone access; access to legal material; group presentations on legal rights; correspondence and other mail; administrative and disciplinary segregation -- special management units; disciplinary policy; detainee handbook; hold rooms in detention facilities; detainee grievance procedures; detainee transfer; funds and personal property; admission and release; and recommendations. The authors find that the "results reveal substantial and pervasive violations of the government's minimum standards . . . " (p. 1).
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