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Victory
for Justice!
Family Detention Ends at T. Don Hutto "[T]he government will stop sending families to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a former state prison near Austin, Tex., that drew an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit and scathing news coverage for putting young children behind razor wire. ... The decision to stop sending families
there - and to set aside plans for three new family detention centers
- is the Obama administration's clearest departure from its predecessor's
immigration enforcement policies." T.
Don Hutto - America's Family Detention Center
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Don Hutto detention center united diverse group in protest T.
Don Hutto Anniversary Vigil - December 16, 2007
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T. Don Hutto Family In August 2009,the Obama administration announced the end of family detention
at Hutto. Ending family detention at Hutto is not just a victory for Grassroots Leadership's Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, but for an entire movement for justice. Hutto History - ICE held immigrant families at the T. Don Hutto family detention center. Before the successful legal action by the ACLU in the fall of 2007, children wore prison garb, and were denied adequate schooling, health care, and recreation. Despite some important improvements made as a result of community organizing, Hutto remained a medium security prison managed by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a for-profit adult corrections company. Grassroots Leadership and other organizations and individual continued to protest the Incarceration of infants and children at Hutto -- even with the "privacy curtains around toilets" mandated in the ACLU settlement. |
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