Family Detention Centers

These are concentration camps, and denying as much merely prepares the way for worse atrocities to come.

But understanding why the detained population fluctuates so significantly is more complicated than looking at the number of beds.

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that family-unit detention centers violate immigrant children's rights. The Department of Homeland Security has 90 days to reform the detention centers or release detainees.