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A GEO Transport bus arrives from the Northwest Detention Center to pick up detained people from the ICE office at the 511 NW Broadway federal building in Portland, Oregon. Northwest Detention Center is a privately-run detention center located on the tide flats of the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Washington , USA.
Three housing units joined in the work stoppage. In response, New Mexico prison officials put all state prisons on lockdown on August 20 as a preemptive measure. [12] On August 19, prisoners in the Burnside jail in Nova Scotia, Canada held a protest and released a statement in support of the strike and with their own list of demands. [13]
Willem van Spronsen (1950–2019) was a carpenter and a resident of Vashon, Washington, [6] [1] who had been arrested previously during a demonstration at the same ICE detention center in June 2018. [1] [7] In the earlier incident, he had a physical altercation with a police officer during an effort to free a protester who was detained.
The Texas prison system’s 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due to a series of drug-related inmate homicides, officials announced on Wednesday. During the lockdown, inmates will ...
The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its detention facilities by using excessive force, failing to protect them ...
At an appearance in Austin on Monday, Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said, "The state of Texas has been left pretty much abandoned by the federal immigration authorities" because Biden has yet ...
A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1] [2] [3] or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot.
By Ted Hesson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will close a costly Texas detention center and reallocate the funds to increase overall detention capacity as ...