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immigrant detention

How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”

by Brianna Nofil

Keep Reading

Immigrant Moms Get Rare Win in Long-fought Family Detention Case

by Michelle Pitcher

In ‘Separated,’ One Journalist’s Close-up View of the Family Separation Crisis

by Karl Richter

At Least Seven Texas Detention Center Employees Who Tested Positive for COVID-19 Were Not Officially Reported by ICE

by Acacia Coronado

South Texas Family Residential Center Dec 15, 2015

Eye on Texas: Family Detention

by Ilana Panich-Linsman

A handwritten letter from "E.," a woman on hunger strike inside the T. Don Hutto detention facility. Nov 05, 2015

Hutto Hunger Strike Reportedly Growing Despite ICE Denials

One striker's daughter says staff retaliated against her mom by transferring her to solitary confinement in an all-male facility.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Mar 27, 2015

Paralegal Blocked from Karnes Detention Center After Observer Story

by Brad Tyer

Families in the hall at the notorious T. Don Hutto family detention center Feb 17, 2015

Costly Bonds Leave Women Refugees Languishing in Detention

by Melissa del Bosque

Karnes County Residential Center Feb 02, 2015

Seeking Asylum in Karnes City

An up-close-and-personal view of family detention in a for-profit lock-up in South Texas.

by Victoria Rossi

Dec 06, 2014

Karnes County Considers its Future in the Family Detention Business

by Melissa del Bosque

migrant children Nov 04, 2014

As Feds Lock Up More Immigrant Families, Abuse Allegations Grow

by Melissa del Bosque

Families in the hall at the notorious T. Don Hutto family detention center Sep 23, 2014

Feds Set to Open Massive New Family Detention Center in November

by Forrest Wilder

Jul 07, 2014

The Unnecessary Expense of Immigrant Detention

by Cindy Casares

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