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With exhaustive criteria for everything from sleeping conditions to religious freedom, the new guidelines are designed to answer years of complaints from human rights lawyers charging the agency has shirked its duty, as departing INS commissioner Doris Meissner says, "to provide safe, secure and humane conditions of detention for all...
Many charge that the problems, which range from inadequate food to lice-ridden bedsheets to virtual lockdown conditions, stem from the fact that the INS has not paid close enough attention to the surroundings in American detention centers. "A big part of the problem has to do with the INS...
Most detention facilities currently under contract with the INS use guidelines established by organizations like the American Correctional Association, which oversee standards in prisons. In addition to the private prisons, the INS also subcontracts to local counties and municipalities, many of which, especially in some southern states, maintain low standards...
INS officials accustomed to censure
The result? John Lennon was on the receiving end of a four-year campaign of FBI surveillance and INS harassment. In 1975 the INS chief counsel on the case resigned his position, telling Rolling Stone that the U.S. government was being more vigorous in its attempts to deport John Lennon...