Research and analysis exposing the inhumane immigration detention system
This report investigates the rapid growth of family detention in 2014, exposing the now closed Artesia Family Detention Center in New Mexico. This report describes how the government justified imprisoning asylum seeking women and their children — including babies, with the misguided (and now illegal) rationale that detention is a way to deter migration.
This report provides an updated review of conditions at immigration jails featured in the original Expose & Close reports from 2012, as well as, additional detention centers in Florida, Nevada, California and Pennsylvania. The report documents a complete lack of accountability in a system that continues to be plagued by deaths, suicides, inadequate medical care and violations of due process.
Expose and Close 2012 was a coordinated release of ten reports that detail the acute and chronic human right violations occurring in some of the worst immigration detention centers in the United States: Baker County Jail (FL), Etowah County Jail (AL), Houston Processing Center (TX), Hudson County Jail (NJ), Irwin County Detention Facility (GA), Pinal County Jail (AZ), Polk County Detention Facility (TX), Stewart Detention Center (GA), Theo Lacy Detention Center (CA), and Tri-County Detention Center (IL).
Presented here is research identifying the companies most heavily invested in the immigration detention business, and charting the increase in their lobbying activities over the last decade — not only in terms of dollars spent but also in terms of the variety of government entities targeted.
