Center of Detention: Tacoma's 'CoCo'

This extraordinary in-depth investigation reveals the hard truths about the Northwest Detention Center, now owned and operated by the GEO Group, and about one immigrant caught in the labyrinth of our broken immigration system.  Top-notch reporting by Lewis Kamb (Tacoma News Tribune,) Carol Smith (InvestigateWest) and Sean Robinson (News Tribune) and a team of photographers and videographers.  And read the many sidebar stories:

The High Cost of Technicalities

'I can't even talk about it'

A DUI and a Deportation

Fleeing El Salvador for Tacoma

15 Minutes in Immigration Court

Is There a Right to Counsel?

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