ICE Agrees to Removal Families at Hutto Detention Center

ACLU Strikes Deal To Continue Humane Conditions At Hutto Detention Center in Texas


The deal comes on the heels of an announcement Thursday that the government will immediately begin ending the detention of families at Hutto, the focus of 2007 lawsuits filed by the ACLU charging that children were being illegally imprisoned under inhumane conditions. The last family is expected to be released from Hutto no later than the end of the year.

The Obama Administration has finally agreed to close this prison where families with children, including babies, had been held in immigration detention, e.g., jail, for months and years. Small children were locked up in prison cells for up to 12 hours a day and only given 1 hour of school education until the ACLU filed suit against the previous Bush Administration polices.

Here is the link:" http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/detention/40648prs20090807.html