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| Advocacy group calls on Obama to stop housing detainees at Kearny jail |
| By nj.com - James Queally |
| Published: 11/16/2012 |
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KEARNY, NJ — Citing denial of medical care, inadequate food and verbally abusive prison guards, a national watchdog group urged President Obama today to immediately break a contract with the Hudson County Correctional Facility that allows the jail to house immigration detainees. In a report titled "Expose and Close," Detention Watch Network named the Kearny facility as one of the 10 in the country that houses federal immigration detainees. The nine others cited in the report are in Alabama, Texas, Florida, Arizona and Illinois. Conditions at these facilities have gotten so bad the only option is to shut them down," said Andrea Black, the group’s executive director. The Hudson jail has been housing detainees on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency since 1995 and receives $111 per inmate, according to the report. In an interview earlier this year, Hudson County spokesman Jim Kennelly said there were roughly 435 ICE detainees among the jail’s 2,100 inmate population. Read More. |
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