What They Were Hiding: Increased Solitary Confinement In Immigrant Detention Facilities <~ The Dissenter

Tracking what U.S. government agencies do not want the public to know when they try to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests for records

Kevin Gosztola Feb 7, 20244 min

For six years, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) committed secrecy abuses and fought requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for records that detailed the use of solitary confinement in immigrant detention facilities.

A new report from Physicians for Human Rights, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Medical School called “‘Endless Nightmare’: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention” [PDF], shows that the two government agencies were hiding ICE’s increased placement of immigrants in isolation.

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A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.

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