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Immigration Detention 101
The United States government maintains the world’s largest immigration detention system
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Mandatory Detention
The dramatic expansion of immigration detention in the United States is largely due to mandatory detention laws
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Detention Quotas
National and local immigration detention quotas arbitrarily funnel people into a sprawling system of unaccountable incarceration
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Family Detention
The unjust policy of locking up immigrant mothers with their children
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Detention Oversight
Detention oversight is failing, putting people’s lives at risk
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Financial Incentives
Financial incentives drive the continuation and expansion of our immigration detention system
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Shadow Prisons
A shadow prison system exclusively created for immigrants, operating in secrecy and with no programs to support those inside
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Alternatives to Detention
Rather than reduce detention, punitive alternatives such as ankle monitors have expanded the number of people under government surveillance