This past August, the 512-bed Don T. Hutto detention center, located near Austin, Texas, run by the Corrections Corporation of America under a $2.8 million-a-month contract, stopped accepting immigrant families. The facility had been the subject of an ACLU lawsuit to improve conditions.
In early August, John Morton, who heads the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, announced that the Department of Homeland Security was reviewing its detention policies. Currently there are 400,000 immigrants in “civil” detention, generally housed in state prisons under contract with DHS. These include detention facilities for children, women and men. Now, there is only one detention center for entire families — a little more than a one-hour drive from Philadelphia, in Berks County.
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