Immigration Detention Centers

New Immigration Detention Center Look Less Like Prison

AP | By WILL WEISSERT | Posted 03.14.2012

KARNES CITY, Texas -- With free Internet access, cheap overseas phone calls, private bathrooms and no lights-out policy, the new immigration detention...

Behind the Walls of an Immigration Detention Center in Florence, Arizona [VIDEO]

Ted Hesson | Posted 10.02.2011

Ted Hesson

During our time in Tucson, we met with 27-year-old Hector, a former detainee who spoke in detail about his experience in an immigration detention center.

Death for Profit

Axel W. Caballero | Posted 09.24.2011

Axel W. Caballero

Bryan Holcomb, an ex-CCA quality assurance manager, spoke exclusively to Cuéntame's Immigrant For Sale producers to expose the negligent operations at Stewart Detention Center.

Gulags American-Style: Where People Disappear

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

John W. Whitehead

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to s...

Immigration Detention Facilities To Become Less Like Prisons, Officials Say

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN ANTONIO — In an agreement U.S. immigration officials hope will begin to reshape the entire 30,000-bed detention system, some asylum-seekers ...

When Does Deportation Become Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Judge H. Lee Sarokin

I have been railing against deportation practices in the US for decades and hope that the Court will avail itself of this opportunity to inject some order and compassion into the process.

Secret Immigration Detention Centers Exist In Colorado: Report

The Colorado Independent | Joseph Boven | Posted 05.25.2011

An upcoming report from The Nation purports to expose 186 secret Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, four of which are locate...

Good News on Immigration Detention But Keeping the Pressure On

Michelle Brané | Posted 05.25.2011

Michelle Brané

Some 440,000 immigrants and asylum-seekers are expected to be detained in the U.S. this year. We need to be realistic. We need immigration reform and that has to come from Congress.

Obama Admin To Place Federal Monitors In Immigration Detention Centers

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to place federal employees in the largest immigration detention facilities in the country to monitor...

Kennedy, Menendez And Gillibrand Introduce Bills To Stop Immigrant Detainee Abuse

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Thursday responded to a growing number of reports about t...