ACLU to Announce Lawsuits Against Hutto Facility

March 6th, 2007 at 10:06 am

The ACLU has a press conference scheduled for 10:30 this morning in Austin to announce multiple lawsuits against federal government officials over the T. Don Hutto detention facility in Taylor, Texas. Hutto is home to hundreds of immigrant families, many of whom came to the U.S. seeking political asylum, in what is branded as a “family residential center,” but the families who have since been released say it’s nothing more than a jail.

Some of those families will be on hand today to talk about about the inhumane conditions at the facility, even though Hutto officials have been on recent PR blitz to convince everyone it’s not so bad. We’ll report back with more details this afternoon.

by Matthew C. Wright

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Texas Observer Blog » Blog Archive » Hutto Reminder says:
April 6th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
[…] from the news recently. The ACLU of Texas said recently that there was nothing new to report on the lawsuits it filed several weeks ago. But the facility was obviously still on the mind of Rep. Eddie […]

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