ICE will scale back use of Winn Correctional Center for asylum seekers after reports of abuses

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60% : Finally, ICE will continue to closely monitor conditions, including ongoing construction and remediation work at the facility, and take additional action as necessary," wrote the agency in a news release.
57% : ICE will provide DHS an assessment from the CRC on key findings.
56% :"ICE will also assign a Custody Resource Coordinator (CRC) to work with the population.
53% : After months of mounting pressure, ICE announced in January a new phased renovation project inside the Winn Correctional Center, aimed to improve the housing conditions for asylum seekers.
52% :Buried inside (page 144) the 2022 Budget Overview that DHS and ICE presented for Congressional Justification early this year, the document showed that the guaranteed minimum cost Louisiana taxpayers an extra of $80 million for only four of the ten facilities located in the state.
50% : e-mail address * Sign UpPrivate prison companies operating Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana benefited for years from the guaranteed minimum, a funding mechanism that compels the federal government to pay them a minimum for beds that may not be filled.
48% : The US Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) is planning to scale back the use of Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana and two other facilities and discontinue the use of a fourth detention center in Alabama.
43% : According to an internal document reviewed first by Reuters and The Washington Post, ICE announced that it would withdraw from the use of Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama, saying it had "long been a facility of serious concern, due to the quantity, severity, diversity, and persistence of deficiencies identified during facility inspections."
38% : According to the document, ICE will reduce the "guaranteed minimum" number of beds contracted at the Alamance County Detention Facility in North Carolina and the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, citing a reduced number of detainees.

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