1. At the Wharton County Jail in Wharton, southwest of Houston, immigration detainees had not been outside in over a year, Bailey said. 2. Bailey said guards at the Jackson County Correctional Facility in Florida in July allegedly used electric cattle prods to shock immigration detainees who were tied up. 3. After being charged, immigration detainees have the right to an arraignment hearing in front of a judge, according to INS spokesman Rick Kenney. 4. But it has not said whether it would try to hold federal immigration detainees, or federal prisoners, at the Fallsburg location. 5. Doris Meissner, the immigration commissioner until she resigned in November, said the standards would help ensure that all immigration service detainees received consistent and fair treatment. 6. The Bush administration ordered state and local officials Thursday not to release information about immigration detainees even as the government lost a crucial related battle in federal appeals court. 7. The rule prohibits state and local employees from disclosing the names of immigration detainees in their custody. 8. They will be phased in over the next two years at state and local jails that house immigration service detainees. 9. But he said more detention centers would have to be built to reduce the use of prisons to hold immigration detainees. 10. Goering said the group is particularly concerned that immigration detainees are being held with criminals. |
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