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Pork-Barrel Politics Keep Alabama Immigration Jail Open: NBC on Etowah

August 22, 2012 (1 min read)

Hats off to Lisa Riordan Seville and Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, for exposing, in detail, how ICE bowed to political pressure to keep a sub-par immigration jail (Etowah County Detention Center, a.k.a. 'hell on Earth') open in Gadsden, Alabama.  Here are the links:

When feds sought to shutter immigration jail, politics intervened

Immigrant detainees land in limbo in Alabama jail

Paperwork hitch landed this immigrant in 'hell on Earth'

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