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Immigrant detention facilities : costs, standards, and issues of sexual abuse /

Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses two different methods to collect and assess data on detention costs; however, these methods do not provide ICE with complete data for managing detention costs across facilities and facility types. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Publishers, [2014]
Colección:Immigration in the 21st century: political, social and economic issues.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • IMMIGRANT DETENTION FACILITIES: COSTS, STANDARDS, AND ISSUES OF SEXUAL ABUSE; IMMIGRANT DETENTION FACILITIES: COSTS, STANDARDS, AND ISSUES OF SEXUAL ABUSE; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: IMMIGRATION DETENTION: ADDITIONAL ACTIONS NEEDED TO STRENGTHEN MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF FACILITY COSTS AND STANDARDS; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND; INCOMPLETE ICE DATA AND LIMITATIONS IN CONTROLS TO TRACK AND MANAGE COSTS LIMIT ASSESSMENT OF COST VARIANCES ACROSS DETENTION FACILITY TYPES.
  • Ice applied different federal standards across facilities but has not documented reasons for the differencesice uses more oversight mechanisms at facilities with greater detainee populations, with some inconsistencies in results across key mechanisms; conclusion; recommendations for executive action; agency comments and our evaluation; appendix i: objectives, scope, and methodology; appendix ii: comparison of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement (ice) detention standards; appendix iii: example of an italicized requirement.
  • APPENDIX IV: EXAMPLE OF AN OPTIMAL PROVISION IN U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT'S (ICE) 2011 PERFORMANCE- BASED DETENTION STANDARDS (PBNDS)Chapter 2: IMMIGRATION DETENTION: ADDITIONAL ACTIONS COULD STRENGTHEN DHS EFFORTS TO ADDRESS SEXUAL ABUSE; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND; ICE SEXUAL ABUSE AND ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS DATA ARE NOT COMPLETE, WHICH COULD LIMIT THEIR USEFULNESS FOR DETENTION MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL ABUSE AND ASSAULT PROVISIONS IN DETENTION STANDARDS VARY IN CONTENT AND APPLICABILITY ACROSS FACILITIES.
  • Dhs focused its sexual abuse and assault oversight on facilities housing most detainees and found most facilities compliant with provisionsconclusion; recommendations for executive action; agency comments and our evaluation; appendix i: objectives, scope, and methodology; appendix ii: summary of substantiated sexual abuse and assault allegations, october 2009 through march 2013; appendix iii: process for reporting and investigating sexual abuse and assault allegations; appendix iv: provisions for sexual abuse and assault prevention and intervention included in immigration detention standards.
  • Appendix v: nprec recommendations compared with dhs detention standards and prea notice of proposed rulemakingappendix vi: dhs prea notice of proposed rulemaking compared with doj prea rule; appendix vii: enforcement and removaloperations 2008 and 2011 sexual abuse andassault provisions inspection checklists; index.