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Immigration inmates protest 'system steeped in failure, secrecy and alleged human rights abuses'

The Texas Tribune's Julian Aguilar has a must-read story regarding the battle over inmate conditions in immigrant detention centers. The story opens:Inmates in a South Texas detention facility began a series of staggered hunger strikes in January, hoping for better conditions and fewer transfers, as advocates pleaded for the federal government to come through on failed promises to reform the immigrant-detention system. Those failings, they argue, prompted inmates at the facility, which sits less than 50 miles from Harlingen, to refuse food in protest of what they allege is mental and physical abuse, lack of medical care and near-nil access to legal resources. The government said on Friday that only two prisoners remain on what it calls ?voluntary fasting? at the Port Isabel Detention Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).