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The Institute reported that workers, mostly migrants from South Asia, were subjected to sexual abuse along with wage theft and prison-like living conditions.
Michelle Chen: Target Comes Under Fire Around the World Michelle Chen 2011
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The Detention Watch Network, which graded DHS on each of its proposed reform initiatives, concluded that the agency has achieved minimal progress and has not substantively improved conditions for the nearly 400,000 immigrants detained every year under "cruel and unusual," prison-like conditions.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed The Media Consortium 2010
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According to a report issued by Human Rights First this week, even if ICE implements all its announced plans to open new civil detention facilities, more than 80 percent of immigration detainees will still be detained in prisons or prison-like facilities.
Michelle Brané: Let's Not Give up on Immigration Detention Reform Quite Yet Michelle Brané 2011
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The Institute reported that workers, mostly migrants from South Asia, were subjected to sexual abuse along with wage theft and prison-like living conditions.
Michelle Chen: Target Comes Under Fire Around the World Michelle Chen 2011
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One official described it as bleak, almost prison-like in its austerity.
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According to a report issued by Human Rights First this week, even if ICE implements all its announced plans to open new civil detention facilities, more than 80 percent of immigration detainees will still be detained in prisons or prison-like facilities.
Michelle Brané: Let's Not Give up on Immigration Detention Reform Quite Yet Michelle Brané 2011
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One official described it as bleak, almost prison-like in its austerity.
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You might, if you weren't looking very hard, say the green-glass boxes of the Folkwang look like a cold store, and his giant complex of law courts in Barcelona are uncomfortably prison-like, as if defendants were guilty until proven innocent.
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Jill Duffy of PIL said that five months after the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, called it a moral outrage, children continued to be held in prison-like conditions.
Child detention in immigration centres faces legal challenge Alan Travis 2010
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By 1900 the few surviving inhabitants were living in walled, prison-like compounds.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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