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Press Release

 

For Immediate Release   
Contact: Dan Gordon <mailto:[email protected]>,
617-651-0841  
August 17, 2023 

**Administration Must Ensure Livable Conditions**

**in ICE Detention**  

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - Government reports cite terrible conditions
in more than two dozen ICE detention centers from 2017 to 2019, as NPR
reported
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Inspectors found " 'negligent' medical care (including mental health
care), 'unsafe and filthy' conditions, racist abuse of detainees,
inappropriate pepper-spraying of mentally ill detainees and other
problems that, in some cases, contributed to detainee deaths."

"Migrants have human dignity, and ICE detention centers must prioritize
humane treatment," said 

**Jennie Murray, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**.
"The Biden administration must ensure that the conditions described in
these reports do not persist today.

"The administration should move to increase the use of alternatives to
detention
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which have proved effective and save money, and decrease the number of
people in detention facilities to begin with. It also should follow
through on reducing its dependence on for-profit private prisons
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These are measures we have called on multiple
administrations, Republican
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to implement.

"The federal government must ensure that it is treating people with
dignity and respect."

  

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