Immigration Detainees Seek Prison-Rape Protection
Abstract
Human rights advocates are calling on the Obama administration to do more to protect people in immigration detention centers from sexual assault. A new federal rule that will take effect next year covers inmates in jails and prisons, but some Homeland Security officials want an exemption for facilities that house illegal immigrants.
Source Publication
NPR's All Things Considered
Repository Citation
Brenda V. Smith & Carrie Johnson,
Immigration Detainees Seek Prison-Rape Protection,
NPR's All Things Considered
(2011).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/319
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