detention center

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Of the 13, Mexican officials said that includes six who died of medical complications, four from suicide, two during ICE operations and another in the shooting at the detention center in Dallas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

That includes Hutchins, Texas, near Dallas, which was expecting a 9,000-person detention center until the warehouse owner, Majestic Realty, said last month that it wouldn’t sell to ICE, though it declined to say why.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

In Mississippi, volunteers rushed to the detention center where Velasquez was being held and got his signature, too.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

The shelter’s oldest resident is an 83-year-old who spent most of his life working in Florida before he was picked up and sent to a detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Once Garvey had shown up at the detention center on his day off, wearing cutoffs and a T-shirt.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen