January 22, 2010
The Eloy Immigration Detention Facility is spotless, calm and quiet. The detainees appear comfortable. But the Obama administration says a loose network of city and county jails, federal prisons and private prisons under contract need to do better at housing undocumented immigrants as they await deportation. The government plans to reform immigration detention facilities in 2010. (Photo Credit: Nadine Rodriguez)
( Phoenix, AZ ) In the second of a two-part story, Marcos Najera takes us inside an immigrant detention facility in Eloy. Since 2003, nine people have died in custody there. Now, the Obama administration is taking a closer look at this prison and others like it around the country that hold nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants annually.
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