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TIL that I am not allowed to send a book to my client in custody.

A book.

(This book, specifically.)

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I have sent books to clients in criminal custody, but apparently ICE detainees just can't be trusted with any more knowledge than absolutely necessary
I called the Bristol County jail's mailroom about this and was told that detainees can only be given books "which come straight from the bookstore." I don't think this is the policy anywhere else, but if it were going to be anywhere it would be on Sheriff Hodgson's watch
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An ICE attorney argued today that it was a "close call" whether an Army soldier serving in Afghanistan would suffer hardship if his mother were deported to Central America while he was deployed.

(I'm used to this kind of thing by now, but thought you might want to hear about it)
Not my case, but happy to report it ended with a win!

However, the judge was also of the opinion that the mother's case was a "close call." She had no criminal record & had dedicated her life to raising a man now willing to risk his life for the country now trying to deport her
N.B.: there *was* a special program available to protect members of military families who might otherwise be deported, but Trump loves our troops so much that he has effectively ended it

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Conditions are getting worse in the other New England ICE detention facilities since the Suffolk (Boston) jail stopped housing detainees. Rather than being more selective about who they detain after losing the bed space, they seem to be packing them in tighter.

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"Every day in here feels like a year," more than one person has told me. Few people in ICE custody have ever done any time before, & the extra stress of not knowing if/when their cases might resolve (let alone how) can be a near- constant state of mental and emotional torture
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