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'It's an incredible facility': Trump brags about his inhumane 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility during cruel remarks at the White House

During his remarks at the White House in September, President Trump bragged about his cruel "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility. Trump stated, "It's an incredible facility." Senate votes to ...
The New York Times

Nicolás Maduro Is Being Held at a Troubled Brooklyn Jail

The Metropolitan Detention Center, known as the M.D.C., is one of the United States’ most notorious federal lockups. By Ali Watkins Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president captured by the United ...
Newsweek

Map Shows New ICE Detention Centers Across US—Report

The Trump administration is reportedly set to rapidly expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention by using warehouses to hold some 80,000 immigrants. Department of Homeland ...
The Hill

Rep. LaMonica McIver returns to detention facility months after scuffle

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) returned to the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in New Jersey on Tuesday to push for its closure months after she was involved in a scuffle at the immigration detention ...
The Aspen Times

Federal judge rules in favor of lawsuit brought by Neguse, U.S. House Democrats over access to immigration detention centers

A federal judge last week sided with a group of Democratic U.S. House lawmakers who sued President Donald Trump’s administration over a new policy that limits congressional members’ access to federal ...
The Denver Post

Freed from ICE facility, activist Jeanette Vizguerra urges detainees: ‘Don’t give up. Keep fighting.’

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Twenty-four hours after she was released from immigration detention, Jeanette Vizguerra stood on the steps of a federal courthouse in downtown Denver on ...
The Fresno Bee

Scabies outbreak hits Central Valley ICE detention center. What’s being done?

A scabies outbreak at a Kern County ICE detention facility is prompting renewed calls for more oversight of health and sanitary conditions at the county’s three detention facilities. Officials for The ...
Sun Sentinel

Attorneys urge judge to visit Alligator Alcatraz to assess detainees’ access to lawyers

ORLANDO — Attorneys for detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades want a federal judge to make an unscheduled, in-person visit to the facility to see firsthand if they are ...
MLive

Bulgarian man dies in ICE detention at Northern Michigan facility

BALDWIN, MI - A man died in detention this week at the North Lake Processing Center, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Northern Michigan, according to congressional sources. The ...
Los Angeles Times

Newly passed House bill would allow unaccompanied minors to be strip-searched and more

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 4371, also known as the Kayla Hamilton Act. The official summary of the bill notes it would “require the Department of Health and Human ...
The Baltimore Sun

Heat restored at Baltimore Youth Detention Center after prolonged outage

Heating was restored to the Youth Detention Center in Baltimore City last week after more than 60 youths housed at the facility endured the city’s first bout of severe winter weather this year. A ...