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Rio Grande Detention Center is a privately owned prison for men located in Laredo, Webb County, Texas, operated by GEO Group under contract with the U.S. government Office of the Federal Detention Trustee. The prison was originally built in 2007, opened in 2008, and has an official capacity of 1900 federal detainees awaiting trial. [1]
Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
Just a year after going public, a riot broke out at Esmor’s immigration detention center near Newark International Airport in New Jersey, a holding tank for immigrants caught trying to enter the country illegally. As an organized group of inmates began to assault guards, staff abandoned their posts and fled the jail. An INS official on site ...
(The Center Square) – Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), continue to expand criminal operations in western states, including in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
A college football player with a history of sexual assault raped a 17-year-old girl aboard a Carnival Cruise ship as she was celebrating the holidays with her family — before heartlessly asking ...
A McDonald's employee has been charged after he allegedly shot and killed a father of four working as a DoorDash driver in North Carolina.. On Thursday, Dec. 26, around 8:00 p.m. local time, Kevin ...
1840 - Laredo becomes capital of the Mexican insurgent Republic of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Federalist War. [4] 1846 - Laredo taken by U.S. Texas Rangers during the Mexican–American War. [5] 1847 - U.S. forces occupy town. [5] 1848 Laredo becomes part of the U.S. per Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at end of Mexican–American War.