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(12) Detainee Transfers
Procedures are to protect their security in transit and make a traumatic experience easier, especially when to locations remote from their families. Transfers also interfere with attorney-client relations and harm constitutionally protected due process rights.
(13) Funds and Personal Property
Rules are supposed to safeguard detainees' money and personal property with written procedures for receiving, processing, storing, and returning them. Evidence showed instances of theft, forfeiture of funds and property, and failure to conduct audits to assure none of this would happen.
(14) Admission and Release
Official procedures protect the health, safety, and welfare of detainees. Most facilities don't do it, including providing proper medical care and personal hygiene considerations from admission to the time of release.
NILC concluded that "the nation's immigrant detention system is broken to its core (and) reveals pervasive and extreme violations of the government's own detention standards as well as fundamental violations of basic human rights and notions of dignity."
On August 6, the Obama administration announced remedial plans amounting only to a cosmetic fix for a dysfunction system. A day ahead, The New York Times headlined "US to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants" and called the effort "an ambitious plan....to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it (into) a 'truly civil detention system.' "
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