Imprisioning Immigrants for Fun and Profit

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Leaning on Jail, City of Immigrants Fills Cells With Its Own

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields at the edge of town. Even when it expanded and added barbed wire, Wyatt was just the backdrop for Little League games, its name stitchedon the caps of the team it sponsored. Then people began to disappear: the leader of a prayer group at St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church; the father of a second grader at the public charter school; a woman who mopped floors in a Providence courthouse.

After days of searching, their families found them locked up inside Wyatt — only blocks from home, but in a separate world.

In this mostly Latino city, hardly anyone had realized that in addition to detaining the accused drug dealers and mobsters everyone heard about, the jail held hundreds of people charged with no crime — people caught in the nation’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Fewer still knew that Wyatt was a portal into an expanding network of other jails, bigger and more remote, all propelling detainees toward deportation with little chance to protest.

. . . rest of article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27det...p;th&emc=th

[Ban Hammer 13,344]

when to worry - when a new jail is built near you.

[symbiosis 0]

when to worry - when a new jail is built near you.

Yeah, what's all the fuss about habeaus corpus? It's probably a ##### French concept!

[panamania79 2]

Leaning on Jail, City of Immigrants Fills Cells With Its Own

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields at the edge of town. Even when it expanded and added barbed wire, Wyatt was just the backdrop for Little League games, its name stitchedon the caps of the team it sponsored. Then people began to disappear: the leader of a prayer group at St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church; the father of a second grader at the public charter school; a woman who mopped floors in a Providence courthouse.

After days of searching, their families found them locked up inside Wyatt — only blocks from home, but in a separate world.

In this mostly Latino city, hardly anyone had realized that in addition to detaining the accused drug dealers and mobsters everyone heard about, the jail held hundreds of people charged with no crime — people caught in the nation’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Fewer still knew that Wyatt was a portal into an expanding network of other jails, bigger and more remote, all propelling detainees toward deportation with little chance to protest.

. . . rest of article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27det...p;th&emc=th

All of those illegal immigrants the state of RI hired to take state workers jobs were detained and sent to Wyatt.They were sent there as opposed to getting sent to the ACI (State Prison) because Wyatt is a federal prison.I beg to differ with this article,we all knew that the illegal immigrants were there.