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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law
Constitutionally Unaccountable: Privatized Immigration Detention, Danielle C. Jefferis
Constitutionally Unaccountable: Privatized Immigration Detention, Danielle C. Jefferis
Indiana Law Journal
For-profit, civil immigration detention is one of this nation’s fastest growing industries. About two-thirds of the more than 50,000 people in the civil custody of federal immigration authorities find themselves at one point or another in a private, corporate-run prison that contracts with the federal government. Conditions of confinement in many of these facilities are dismal. Detainees have suffered from untreated medical conditions and endured months, in some cases years, of detention in environments that are unsafe and, at times, violent. Some have died. Yet, the spaces are largely unregulated. This Article exposes and examines the absence of a constitutional …
To Loose The Bonds: The Deceptive Promise Of Freedom From Pretrial Immigration Detention, Denise L. Gilman
To Loose The Bonds: The Deceptive Promise Of Freedom From Pretrial Immigration Detention, Denise L. Gilman
Indiana Law Journal
Each year, the United States government detains more than 60,000 migrants who are eligible for release during immigration court proceedings that will determine their right to stay in the United States. Detention or release should be adjudicated through a custody determination process focused on the question of whether a mi-grant poses a flight risk or danger to the community. Yet, because the process skips the critical inquiry into the need for detention before setting monetary bond require-ments for release that are difficult to fulfill, freedom remains elusive.
The custody determination process is a cornerstone in the U.S. immigration de-tention edifice …
How Is International Human Rights Law Enforced?, Harold Hongju Koh
How Is International Human Rights Law Enforced?, Harold Hongju Koh
Indiana Law Journal
Addison C. Harris Lecture, January 21, 1998, Indiana University Law School.