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In an effort to soften immigration detention centers, Janet Napolitano, the current Director for the Department of Homeland Security under the Obama administration, has commented that among other ideas, the presdient has mentioned the notion of converting hotels into new detention centers.
This is a even a cheaper way than hiring them to clean hotel rooms!In an effort to soften immigration detention centers, Janet Napolitano, the current... more
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that it will be difficult to meet the administration's Jan. 22, 2010, deadline to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that it will be difficult to meet the... more
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When more than 60 prisoners at the South Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile, LA, began a hunger strike last week, in protest of the facility's deplorable conditions, guards at the immigrant detention center placed at least six of them in solitary confinement for 60 days. The planned 72-hour strike was the fifth of its kind in one month at the facility, whose parent company, LCS Corrections Services, holds a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to manage the detention center.
These detention centers are run by private contractors. Making billions of dollars at our expenseWhen more than 60 prisoners at the South Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile, LA,... more
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The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”
Thousands of immigrants stay months in our detention facilities, costing tax-payers millions of dollars, and making private detention contractors billionaires.
What do we do?The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul... more
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More than 10,000 charred bone fragments were found buried at the site of a former Argentine government detention center, the first find of its kind at one of the secret centers, Argentine officials said.
Bones were unearthed during a seven-month search at an ex-detention post in La Plata, Argentina, officials said.
Searchers said they also found a wall with more than 200 bullet holes and an "important quantity" of spent ammunition shells on the ground nearby. In some cases, bullets were still lodged in the wall.
The announcement was made Tuesday at a news conference by government officials and representatives of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, better known as EAAF, the initials of its name in Spanish.
A team of six professional anthropologists and support crew said it believed the remains were human, but it was unable to determine how many bodies the fragments represented.
The detention center was among those used in Argentina during the country's "Dirty War," which started in 1976 when a group of generals staged a coup and started a vicious crackdown against anyone considered a subversive.
By the time civilian control of the government resumed in 1983, up to 30,000 Argentines had been abducted and taken to the secret government detention centers, where they were tortured and killed. They are widely called "los desaparecidos," or "the disappeared."More than 10,000 charred bone fragments were found buried at the site of a former... more
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