Study finds using county jails for ICE detention of immigrants perpetuates criminal perceptions
By Emily Ryo, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California, and Ian Peacock, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Hundreds of county jails in the U.S. are paid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants facing removal proceedings. On a typical day in 2017, for instance, Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, operated by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, held about 500 individuals for ICE and received US$118 per person per day, bringing in a total of $59,000 a day. More so than federally operated facilities, county jails, along with facilities operated...
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