Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration

Sentences: Writings About Mass Incarceration

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Urbana Man Arrested by ICE After Dropping Kids Off at Day Care

Urbana Man Arrested by ICE After Dropping Kids Off at Day Care

Four county jails and an airplane ride: a trip through ICE detention

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In my effort to map out the largely invisible network of county jails and prisons in the Midwest where ICE is holding immigrants, I interviewed Alonso (his name is withheld for safety) who was sent to three jails in Missouri, one in Kansas, and held at ICE offices in St. Louis and Kansas City, before being put on a commercial airplane and flown to Costa…

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