9/17/2007 - Oregon Considered

Posted by Michael Clapp at September 17, 2007 04:41 PM

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Behind-The-Scenes At The NW Immigration Detention Center
0917_detention.jpgWhen illegal immigrants are captured in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, they’re brought to a federal detention center in Tacoma, WA.
It’s the only facility of its kind in the Northwest. When it opened three years ago, it held 500 detainees. Now it holds on average a thousand.
Correspondent Austin Jenkins recently got a rare look inside this federal lock-up.
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