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A simple bed with a colorful blanket

Advocates say another privately operated immigration detention center for women and children is the wrong approach

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“Sometimes I’d like to imprison the immigration officials, the judge, the president, so that they can endure 19 days in there with their children,” says one woman who was recently released from immigration detention.“Sometimes I’d like to imprison the immigration officials, the judge, the president, so that they can endure 19 days in there with their children,” says one woman who was recently released from immigration detention.

A woman looks out a window of a holding cell

The Department of Justice will stop contracting with private prison companies, but immigration officials won’t follow suit

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