The facility had proved inadequate for the women being held there, but now lawyers are struggling to find their clients — and ensure they’re properly cared for
on its website, advising the Karnes County Family Residential Center would be converted back to a facility for families, and any adult women who had been housed there would be transferred to other detention centers. In the meantime, the note said, “additional intake at the facility has been temporarily suspended.”
Andrea Meza, Director of Family Detention Services for RAICES, is pouring over a giant spreadsheet. “We know where, last I checked, about 300 to 400 of the approximately 1,000 women we’ve been in contact with are, but we still don’t know where the rest of them might be.” Of the women RAICES has been able to locate, some are being housed at a private prison in Mississippi that the Justice Department found so poorly-managed it issued a scathingdetailing its problems. The Federal Bureau of Prisons to ended its contract with the prison earlier this year, but now immigrant women are being sent there.
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