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Out of places to house immigration detainees, the feds have turned to already overcrowded federal prisons. Some are triple-bunked and confined to their cells 22 hours each day. Good reporting from @bykevinj ->
uw.usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
DOJ says it's housing immigration detainees in "a status analogous to pre-trial detainees." (Pretrial detainees are not infrequently held in conditions more restrictive than those imposed on convicts.)
DOJ says it has the extra capacity to detain migrants. But its prisons have been forcing teachers, secretaries and nurses to pull guard duty because they don't have enough guards.
Here's the story -> uw.usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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Speaking of drugs: Since the Trump administration ordered prosecutors to focus on minor immigration crimes, DOJ has been bringing fewer cases against border drug traffickers than at any point in more than a decade. Here's DOJ's data, through November.
Here's our coverage from a couple months ago. The trend hasn't changed. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
(Yes that's an Excel chart, and yes we'd normally have December data by now, but that might not be one of those essential government functions.)
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There's now a not-quite-so-secret D.C. Cir. opinion in the mystery Mueller grand jury case.
Whoever the mystery company is, it's been ordered to pay $50,000 a day in fines until it complies with the grand jury subpoena. But the accrual is stayed while appeals are pending.
Whatever the mystery company is, it's conducting "general commercial activity in the U.S."
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Lawyers for one of the Russian companies charged over election meddling continue to file peevish things in court, this time about how unhappy the judge seemed to be about previous peevish filings ->
The lawyers say they've been getting threats ever since the judge faulted them for unprofessional behavior. Some were "whipped into their frenzy by a cable television entertainer unknown to undersigned counsel named Rachel @Maddow."
Here's the filing -> documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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THREAD: As an asylee and former detainee at a private prison contracted by ICE, this story is not shocking to me. In my time in ICE detention, I witnessed multiple instances of sexual harassment and heard stories of abuse and assault from fellow detainees.
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