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Immigration Detainees

  • Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons: examining the costs, [PDF] Citizens Alliance on Prisons & Public Spending. April, 2006. "Michigan prisons currently house hundreds of people who are citizens of other countries at a cost of $30,000 each."
  • Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor... A Report on Due Process Issues in the Handling of Immigration Detainees in Massachusetts, [PDF] Detention Working Group - Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. July, 2005.
  • USA: Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Detention, [PDF] Amnesty International. June, 2003.
  • Beyond Locked Doors: Abuse of Refugee Women at the Krome Detention Facility, [PDF] Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children. October, 2002.
  • Immigration Offenders in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 2000 Bureau of Justice Statistics. August, 2002. "immigration law prosecutions double, 1996-2000"
  • Prison Guard or Parent? INS Treatment of Unaccompanied Refugee Children, [PDF] Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children. May, 2002.
  • Detained and Deprived of Rights: Children in the Custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Human Rights Watch. December, 1998.
  • Protecting the Rights of Children: The Need for U.S. Children's Asylum Guidelines, [PDF] Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children. December, 1998.
  • Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States, Human Rights Watch. September, 1998.
  • Forgotten Prisoners: A Follow-Up Report on Refugee Women Incarcerated in York County, Pennsylvania, [PDF] Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children. July, 1998.
  • Slipping through the cracks: Unaccompanied Children Detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Human Rights Watch. April, 1997.
  • Liberty Denied: Women Seeking Asylum Imprisoned in the United States, [PDF] Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children. April, 1997.

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