Immigrants and Prisons Background
U.S.-Mexico
Border
Background
Reports
Amnesty International Report:
Lost in the Labyrinth: Detention of Asylum Seekers in the USA
Human Rights Watch Report:
Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States
Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights Report:
Is this America?: The Denial of Due Process to Asylum Seekers in the United States
Informative sites
The Oregonian, 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winning series on the INS:
Liberty's Heavy Hand
The Village Voice:
A Dream Detained
Amnesty International:
INS Detention: The Impact on Asylum Seekers