Sentences with phrase «in immigration detention facilities»

The impact of those deprivations is currently being examined by the Human Rights Commission's inquiry into the harms suffered by the 1,000 - plus children currently detained in immigration detention facilities in Australia and Nauru.

That study found that, since 2011, Canada has housed more than 200 Canadian minors in detention in Toronto's Immigration Holding Centre, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, and its authors recommended that Canada implement alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration detention facilities or separating them from their detained parents.

At 31 March 2018, there were 1389 people in immigration detention facilities, including 1059 in immigration detention on the mainland and 330 in immigration detention on Christmas Island.

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As a point of clarification, there are no private state prisons in New York state, but there are several privately - run U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, some of which are in the city.

However, Schwarz said, Congress has funded a minimum of 34,000 beds a day for immigration detention, and 62 percent are in facilities run by private contractors.

Bill de Blasio and a host of other New York elected officials gathered in Manhattan last Thursday to protest the GEO Group, which runs the Queens Detention Facility, at 182 - 22 150th Ave., that is used for suspects who are arrested for immigration issues and awaiting trial.

Many alternatives to immigration detention exist, they conclude, and these «should be explored before vulnerable people are placed in such facilities.»

Currently, there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, 79 Indian Country jails, military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in U.S. territories.

release human rights based inspection standards for immigration detention facilities in conjunction with the Commonwealth Ombudsman and Attorney - General's Department