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Two men hug in room with many people around them

An immigrant detainee is sent over 1,000 miles away from his family and lawyer — and fights to return

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Prominent immigrant advocate Ravi Ragbir was detained in New York City, but agents sent him to Florida after saying that they would deport him. A judge told the government to bring him back while his case is being heard.

A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door

Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump

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Female inmate population skyrockets in the US

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Inmates wait before they are released from Thanh Xuan prison outside Hanoi on Aug. 29, 2010.

Here’s one way to escape death row in Vietnam: Get pregnant

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Jukka Tiihonen served the last few years of his sentence for murder at this open prison on Suomenlinna Island. The yellow fence, with a sign saying, "Labor Colony" in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Russian, separates the prison from a neighborhood.

In Finland’s ‘open prisons,’ inmates have the keys

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