Immigrant Detainees Tell of Attack Dogs and Abuse

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Daniel Zwerdling, NPR


All Things Considered, November 17, 2004 · Since Congress revamped the nation's immigration laws in the 1990s, the government has rounded up tens of thousands of immigrants each year who've committed a crime -- from murder to offenses such as overstaying their visas -- even if the offenders had already been punished.


These immigrants have been jailed for months or years while Homeland Security officials obtained a court order to deport them. Some have allegedly experienced brutal and violent conditions while in detention.

In a two-part series, NPR's Daniel Zwerdling investigates allegations that guards have beaten up detainees and mistreated them in other ways at two jails in New Jersey used by Homeland Security.