T. Don Hutto Residential Center: Difference between revisions

 

"[A]fter years of controversy, media exposure, and a lawsuit", in 2009, the Obama Administration closed T. Don Hutto Family Detention Facility, the United States’ "largest family immigration detention facility." "Conditions at the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Facility, and the impact of detention on families and children, proved that family detention could not be carried out humanely."<ref name="LIRS_2014">{{citation |url=http://lirs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/LIRSWRC_LockingUpFamilyValuesAgain_Report_141114.pdf |format=PDF |title=Locking Up Family Values, Again |date=October 2014 |accessdate=February 13, 2017 |pages=31 |publisher=[[Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service]] and Women’s Refugee Commission}}</ref>{{rp|2}} On August 6, 2009, federal officials announced that T. Don Hutto would no longer house immigrant families.<ref>[http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/?SecID=278&ArID=248924 T. Don Hutto detention center will no longer house immigrant families]{{Dead link|date=October 2010}}</ref> Instead, only female detainees will be housed there. In September 2009, the last families left the facility and were moved to the much smaller Berks Family Residential Center in [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>[http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=252912 Final families removed from T. Don Hutto facility]{{Dead link|date=October 2010}}</ref><ref>[https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/press_ice_detention_reform_fact_sheet.pdf ICE Detention Reform Fact Sheet]</ref>

 

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