This is a list of detention facilities holding undocumented immigrants in the

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. The United States maintains the largest undocumented immigration detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or under contract with the

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, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration tha ...

(ICE). During the period 2007–2009, no fewer than 363 detention camps were used.

References

* American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. 2008. Detention and Deportation in the Age of Ice: Immigrants and Human Rights in Massachusetts. December 2008. *

Corrections Corporation of America CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley ...

. Website. http://www.correctionscorp.com/. *Fleming, Cory and Fritz Scheuren. Study on the Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal: Statistical Report on Detention - FY 2000 – 2003. U.S Department of Homeland Security, February 2005. *

GEO Group The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is a publicly traded C corporation that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in North America, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, the company's f ...

, Inc. Website. http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/. *Pavlik-Kenan, Catrina M. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Freedom of Information Act Office). 2007. Letter to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 7 November 2007. Geneva, Switzerland. *Pioneer Human Services. Website. "Juvenile Programs, Pioneer Human Services." http://www.pioneerhumanserv.com/community_links/juvenile.html. *Southwest Key. Website. "Unaccompanied Minors Program." http://www.swkey.org/Unaccompanied_Minors.html. *

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is " ...

. Website. "Office of Refugee Resettlement." http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/. *

. Website. "Detention & Removal: Immigration Detention Facilities." http://www.ice.gov/pi/dro/facilities.htm. *

Women's Refugee Commission The Women's Refugee Commission is a 501(c)(3) Non-governmental organization, Non-Governmental Organization that aims to improve the lives and protect the rights of Women, Children, and Youth displaced by conflict or crisis. Established in 1989 ...

. 2009. Halfway Home: Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Detention. February 2009. {{Immigration to the United States * *

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