No hugs, kids cutting themselves: Court gets unprecedented peek inside Homestead shelter
By Monique O. Madan
June 02, 2019 12:31 PM, Updated 11 hours 58 minutes ago
The Department of Health and Human Services released video it said is from the shelter in Homestead where 1,200 immigrant children are being held, including dozens separated from their parents. By Health and Human Services
A 705-page court document filed by lawyers who spent substantial time inside Homestead’s detention center for unaccompanied minors says the migrant children held there are subjected to “prison-like†regimens, potentially sustaining permanent psychological damage due to isolation from loved ones.
Based on interviews with detainees, the filing describes dumbfounded and despairing children, cut off from their relatives except for phone calls, enduring “military-camp†style conditions and stays that often stretch into months.
It is by far the most detailed description of life inside the secretive detention center, although the stories are relayed through the prism of adults advocates who want to see the children moved to smaller settings — the number of children in the fa
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