detention

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While Congress and state legislatures have passed reform to soften criminal sentencing laws, immigration detention remains, technically, a civil jurisdiction and outside their scope.

From Salon

Rahman's arrest in 2024, which came after the player involved had alerted the authorities, was the first such detention of a Premier League official since it was established six years ago.

From Barron's

Sudani has also cooperated with the United States to bring into Iraq a caravan of Islamic State prisoners from Syria, where the army recently moved on Kurdish fighters who had run the detention camps.

From Barron's

To increase deportations, the administration roughly tripled the number of detention beds used for people arrested within the U.S., the analysis notes.

From Barron's

Legal experts weighed in on the public’s constitutional protections from immigration stops and detentions.

From Salon