Immigrant mothers and their children are being detained under guaranteed minimum provisions, which assure fixed detainee quotas, effectively rendering immigrants a source of profit for private and public prison companies, according to the findings from a new report released this month by the Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).

“Our report exposes the extent to which local lockup quotas incentivize the incarceration of immigrants and fuel ICE to pursue punitive and unjust enforcement practices,” Silky Shah, Co-Director of Detention Watch Network said in a press release. ...

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