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Office of Inspector General Finds Abuses at ICE Detention Facilities
Loaded on July 2, 2018
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2018, page 40
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Immigration.
Location:
United States of America.
by Christopher Zoukis
A December 11, 2017 report issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) harshly criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for serious deficiencies at four immigration detention facilities.
The OIG report arrived just weeks after two non-profit groups, Detention Watch ...
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