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ABA "This webinar will discuss the dramatic rise in the use of electronic monitoring of migrants, including through ankle monitors and phone app technology. It will ask whether electronic monitoring presents a positive move away from immigration...

TRAC, Dec. 14, 2022 "ICE has informed TRAC that Alternatives to Detention (ATD) data previously released by the agency on several occasions between August 2022 and December 2022, as well as data previously released for FY 2022, was inaccurate....

Travis Mannon, José Olivares, The Intercept, Nov. 15, 2022 "In an exclusive video, a hunger striker is force-fed in ICE detention — lifting the veil of secrecy on a practice condemned by medical ethicists."

Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Nov. 15, 2022 "A congressional investigation into medical abuse allegations that garnered national attention in 2020 found that some immigrant women held by U.S. immigration officials at a Georgia detention center...

You know that folks are moving from Twitter to Substack, right? Here's a new Substack that will be important for everyone following immigration law and policy: https://detentionkills.substack.com/ © 2022 Andrew Free "Folks move. Detention...

National Immigrant Justice Center and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights "During their time in government custody, many children who have arrived at the U.S. border without a parent or guardian can incur “Significant Incident...

Situation Report and Recommendations to Protect the Human Rights of Stateless People in U.S. Immigration Detention and Supervision Univ. of Chicago Law School Global Human Rights Clinic, United Stateless, November 2022 "Statelessness —...

Towards Justice, Oct. 21, 2022 "Yesterday, a class of thousands of former immigration detainees won a path-breaking victory in federal court in their long-running lawsuit against the GEO Group—the private corporation that runs the Aurora...

Phaedra Haywood, Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 21, 2022 "U.S. senators from California and Massachusetts have joined New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján in calling for the closure of a Torrance County immigration detention center...

AIC, Oct. 13, 2022 "Several legal services organizations filed a lawsuit today against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for unlawfully preventing attorneys from communicating with immigrants detained in four detention facilities in Florida...

TRAC, Sept. 20, 2022 "ICE’s latest release of detention data is, once again, riddled with errors. ICE’s data on Alternatives to Detention wrongly reports enrollments of 96,574 people, because the agency mistakenly released data from...

Prof. Kristina Shull, Sept. 14, 2022 "... My forthcoming book, Detention Empire , zeroes in on the early 1980s as a critical turning point in the rise of mass incarceration. An event known as the Mariel Cuban boatlift, a large-scale migration of...

Detained Leaders file simultaneous federal complaints against ICE, GEO Group & MTC "Today, a collective of leaders and individuals detained at multiple facilities in California, filed two simultaneous complaints to the Department of Homeland...

AIC, Sept. 7, 2022 "This lawsuit challenged Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) practice of transferring unaccompanied minors who turn 18 years old to adult custody in the agency’s contracted jails and prisons, without considering...

Elena Hodges, June 2022 "The movement to abolish immigration detention in the United States has secured immense victories in recent years. Directly impacted communities around the country are demanding an end to the inhumane and violent practice...