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ICE Bans Crayons in Family Detention Center Visiting Area

Loaded on Feb. 8, 2017 published in Prison Legal News February, 2017, page 59
Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Immigration, Visiting, Attorney Visits, Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons, Family, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners. Locations: Texas, United States of America.

Prisoners who cause property damage in correctional facilities often receive swift punishment. It was no different for the very young prisoners held in one of the United States’ most controversial detention centers. Housed with their immigrant mothers in the GEO Group-operated Karnes County Residential Center in Texas, some creative toddlers ...

 

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