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CCA-Run Immigrant Family Detention Center in Texas Violates Settlement Conditions
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2008, page 20
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Settlements,
Immigration.
Location:
Texas.
On April 9, 2007, a federal district court in Texas held that the conditions of confinement at a privately-run facility used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold families detained due to immigration issues violated the terms of a class-action settlement related to the detention of ...
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