Study Slams Feds for Conditions at Immigration Detention Centers
Christopher Nugent - Washington
Community Services Team attorney Christopher Nugent was featured in a Law.com article titled, "Study Slams Feds for Conditions at Immigration Detention Centers" on July 30, 2009.
The article discusses a recently released report called, "A Broken System," a collaboration between Holland & Knight, the National Immigration Law Center, and the ACLU of Southern California. The report analyzed the U.S. government's immigrant detention standards and roles adopted in 2000 and concluded that the administration had failed to meet them. According to the brief, the government has not complied with their self-made guidelines ranging from visitation rights and telephone access to detainee transfers and attorneys. The documents analyzed were obtained through a court-ordered discovery in Orantes-Hernandez v. Holder, a case in which Holland & Knight handled. "It's been a labor of love for several years," Mr. Nugent said. "We had a team of over 20 attorneys and paralegals who donated 21,000 hours to go through 18,000 pages of reports to identify deficiencies in the facilities. It was a pro bono project that morphed from litigation into an advocacy project." To read the full article, please click the link below.
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