Featuring data and interviews with detained people at Etowah and 6 other detention centers known for inadequate medical care.
Featuring data and stories culled from extensive interviews with hundreds of detainees in six southern detention centers, including Etowah – see pp51-62.
An in-depth study of habeas corpus petitions filed by Etowah detainees seeking release from prolonged detention, finding that the federal district court in Birmingham has abdicated its duty to review detainees’ claims of unlawful detention.
See pages 28-29 and 35, discussing “super-recommendations memorandum” issued by CRCL to ICE noting serious and longstanding concerns arising from numerous complaints of civil rights violations at Etowah, recommending that ICE cease use of the facility.
See pages 21-22, highlighting Etowah as a prime example of the failed ICE inspections system.
See pages 41 & 124, noting Etowah detainees’s repeated complaints about rotten food and insufficient nutrition, finding that Etowah has “not complied with NDS [National Detention Standards] contractual standards to provide detainees with nutritious food”.
See pages 9-10, describing how although ICE slated Etowah for closure in 2010, it rescinded the decision and kept the facility open after Alabama congressional representatives threatened ICE’s funding.
The CRCL “Super-Recommendations Memorandum” on systemic civil rights complaints and failed reforms at Etowah, obtained in Adelante v. DHS FOIA litigation by Shut Down Etowah members and co-counsel Public Citizen Litigation Group.
More Etowah contract documents obtained by Families for Freedom and the ACLU of Alabama
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