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Punishing With Impunity: The Legacy Of Risk Classification Assessment In Immigration Detention, Robert Koulish, Kate Evans
Punishing With Impunity: The Legacy Of Risk Classification Assessment In Immigration Detention, Robert Koulish, Kate Evans
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In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security adopted a risk classification assessment ("RCA") tool to run on migrants in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"). The risk tool helped determine who was detained and who was released from ICE custody. It was intended to curb detention rates by limiting detention based on risk of flight and danger and to ensure that the conditions of civil immigration detention were distinct from those in criminal detention. This Article presents data from several RCA datasets received pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
The story of the RCA is one of …