Prison group sues to keep immigrant detention center open
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2021-05-18 03:30
Prison group sues to keep immigrant detention center open
GEO seeks a preliminary injunction and also argues the state law would force the detention center to shutter in September, which is much earlier than many people assumed. The struggle over the 1,575-bed Northwest ICE Processing Center - one of the country's largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails - follows years of criticism by activists and human-rights advocates saying immigrants held there are given inadequate food and medical care, and spend much longer on average in solitary confinement than at other such institutions.

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