New deal keeps open facility detaining immigrant families

Thursday, October 18, 2018

HOUSTON -- The U.S. government has quietly reached a new agreement to keep open a 2,400-bed detention facility used to detain immigrant mothers and children, in a lucrative arrangement for a private prison company and the tiny South Texas town where it's located.

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