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Charlottesville Tomorrow |
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May 9, 2022 |
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An immigration detention center in Farmville built for over 700 people now has 11 — and activists say it’s time to shut it down By Angilee Shaw |
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In 2015, over 325,000 people were detained in 637 facilities around the country, with 72% confined to centers run by for-profit companies according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Through the Trump years, the numbers continued to grow, mostly through the increased detention of immigrants who had no criminal convictions. |
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