ICE Slow to Embrace Alternatives to Immigrant Detention
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By Alfonso Serrano, New America Media
The recently unveiled immigrant detention center run in Karnes City, Texas hardly looks like a prison at all.
By most accounts, the Karnes County Civil Detention Center operated under contract by The GEO Group of Boca Raton is an improvement over a sprawling U.S. immigrant-detention network, plagued by often horrific conditions and lax oversight, that costs U.S. taxpayers over $2 billion a year.