Pushing them to the edge: Suicide in immigrant detention centers as a product of organizational failure

2021 ◽  
pp. 114177
Author(s):  
Beatriz Aldana Marquez ◽  
Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde ◽  
John M. Eason ◽  
Linda Aldana
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Failure ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Immigrant Detention

Compounding Racialized Vulnerability: COVID-19 in Prisons, Jails, and Migrant Detention Centers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew G.T. Denney ◽  
Ramon Garibaldo Valdez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Improved Sanitation ◽  
Immigrant Detention

Abstract Context: Carceral institutions are among the largest clusters of COVID-19 in the United States. As outbreaks have spread throughout prisons and detention centers, detainees have organized collectively to demand life-saving measures. Chief among these demands has been the call for decarceration: the release of detainees and inmates to prevent exposure to COVID-19. This paper theorizes the compounding racial vulnerability that has led to such a marked spread behind bars, mainly among race-class subjugated communities. Methods: We use journalistic sources and administrative data to provide an in-depth account of the spread of COVID-19 in American correctional facilities and of the mobilization to reduce contagions. We also use two survey experiments to describe public support for harm reduction and decarceration demands and measure the effects of information about (a) racial inequalities in prison, and (b) poor conditions inside migrant detention centers. Findings: We find that only one-third to one-half of respondents believe that response to COVID-19 in prisons and immigrant detention centers should be a high priority. We also find that Americans are much more supportive of harm reduction measures like improved sanitation than of releasing people from prisons and detention centers. Information about racial disparities increases support for releasing more people from prison. We do not find any significant effect of information about poor conditions in migrant detention centers. Conclusions: The conditions in prisons and migrant detention centers during the pandemic—and public opinion about them—highlight the realities of compounding racialized vulnerability in the United States.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-54
Keyword(s):  
Jim Crow ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Immigrant Detention ◽  
Jim Crow South

The introduction analyzes the ways in which distinct regimes of incarceration and removal—from jails and prisons to Indian reservations and immigrant detention centers and deportation trains—have constituted what Michel Foucault has called a “carceral continuum, network and archipelago” that stretches across time, space, and region. Foucault defined this “carceral continuum” as a disciplinary network where the prison served as the core and root of carceral power but where different branches of other carceral regimes entwined. The introduction expands Foucault’s “carceral continuum” to explore how a variety of federal, state, local, and privatized institutions developed from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. The introduction situates overlapping “carceral networks” as the core nexus that connects otherwise distinct historiographies of the American West, the Jim Crow South, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As a collection of essays that analyzes the intersection of carceral networks across different regions and transnationally between different nations, the introduction addresses a historiography of carceral literature that is often defined by its attachment to regional characteristics and different methodological approaches. The introduction concludes that the intersection of these carceral states may yet provide the critical lens needed to dismantle the tangled state of mass incarceration.

Stripping Away Invisibility: Exploring the Architecture of Detention

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Victoria Law
Keyword(s):  
Index Volume ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Past ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
The People ◽  
Immigrant Detention ◽  
Physical Spaces

<div class="bookreview">tings chak, <em>Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention</em> (Montreal: Architecture Observer, 2014), 112 pages, 22 euros ($30.60 from Amazon), paperback.</div> Over the past six years, more than 100,000 people, including children, have been jailed in Canada, many without charge, trial, or an end in sight, merely for being undocumented.&hellip; Locked away from the public eye, they become invisible.&hellip; Like the people within, immigrant detention centers are often invisible as well. Photos and drawings of these places are rarely public; access is even more limited. Canada has three designated immigrant prisons, and it also rents beds in government-run prisons to house over one-third of its detainees.&hellip; <em>Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention </em>begins to strip away at this invisibility. In graphic novel form, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist tings chak draws the physical spaces of buildings in which immigrant detainees spend months, if not years. In crisp black and white lines, chak walks the reader through the journey of each of these 100,000+ people when they first enter an immigrant detention center.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-5" title="Vol. 67, No. 5: October 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

scholarly journals COVID-19 Outbreaks in US Immigrant Detention Centers: The Urgent Need to Adopt CDC Guidelines for Prevention and Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J Openshaw ◽  
Mark A Travassos
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Cdc Guidelines ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽  
Immigrant Detention ◽  
Detention Facilities

Abstract There have been several significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in federal immigrant detention centers, which lack clear and consistent guidelines across Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies to limit the spread of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued detailed guidelines for the control, prevention, and evaluation of COVID-19 in detention facilities. Although the DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has stated that it complies with CDC recommendations, its policies significantly differ from these CDC guidelines, placing detainees at risk for contracting COVID-19. This submission urges the adoption of CDC guidelines across DHS-associated facilities. Such a policy change has the potential to protect and save the lives of the most vulnerable populations under the auspices of the federal government.

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