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Poor Immigrant Conditions In Prisons

Two Illinois detention centers are being accused of violating human rights.  A recent report reveals Mount Vernon's Jefferson County Jail and Ullin's Tri-County Detention Center have deplorable confinement conditions for immigrant inmates.  Advocates from The National Immigrant Justice Center and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights Advocates say prison officials have done nothing to improve the, quote, "inhumane," conditions since at least 2009.  Now they're calling on President Obama to step in.  They're asking the federal government not to approve any new proposals for immigrant detention facilities across the nation, including a proposed center in Crete.

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