Posted on 06/10/2010 11:31:33 AM PDT by AuntB
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are preparing to roll out a series of changes at several privately owned immigration detention centers, including relaxing some security measures for low-risk detainees and offering art classes, bingo and continental breakfast on the weekends.
The changes were welcomed by immigrant advocates who have been waiting for the Obama administration to deliver on a promise made in August to overhaul the nation's immigration detention system.
The 28 changes identified in the e-mail range from the superficial to the substantive. In addition to “softening the look of the facility” with hanging plants and offering fresh carrot sticks, ICE will allow for the “free movement” of low-risk detainees, expand visiting hours and provide unmonitored phone lines.
ICE officials said the changes are part of broader efforts to make the immigration detention system less penal and more humane.
But the plans are prompting protests by ICE's union leaders, who say they will jeopardize the safety of agents, guards and detainees and increase the bottom line for taxpayers. Tre Rebstock, president for Local 3332, the ICE union in Houston, likened the changes to creating “an all-inclusive resort” for immigration detainees.
Other major changes include:
• Eliminating lockdowns and lights-out for low-risk detainees.
• Allowing visitors to stay as long as they like in a 12-hour period.
• Allowing low-risk detainees to wear their own clothing or other non-penal attire.
• Providing e-mail access and Internet-based free phone service.
Not about punishment
"It's not about punishing people for a crime they committed.”
Rosenberg said some of the changes, like new flower baskets, may seem small, but they will combine with the bigger changes to make a difference in the daily lives of detainees.
“Taken together they will go some way to making this system less penal,” she said.
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Several years ago I did a study on these ‘private prison’ systems. Illegal immigration is big money! And these corps have no problem handing out big contributions. They NEED the continued flow of aliens to increase their income.
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“...Wow, I would just like to say the new hallway door colors are fabulous. I mean it is quite refreshing to see the federal government throw open the door to a more metro sexual interpretation of color schemes inside our buildings. Gone are the macho stereotypes that so forced us into behavioral straight jackets. We can now be free to embrace our more feminine side in the work environment, Yin and Yang you know. The choice of sky for the entry side where the buses enter was inspirational.
The embrace of a bright morning color to the East doors just sings of new hope. The more subdued but still bright willow to the medical end speaks of organic spring’s promise of individual growth. Most officers here would have picked green and blue. Far be it from me to interject with suggestions because I know you just have a delicious designer picking out the color schemes; but since I work in the detention building I thought I would just run a few suggestions up the flag pole and see how many boys salute.
First, the main hallway looks so industrial. I mean, what is up with gray? Not even a tea green gray or asparagus gray, but some sort of frustrated homophobic gun gray. What are we trying to say here? It seems so harsh. I envision a warm fuscia. It might seem shocking at first but the color’s strong accents on energy interact nicely with sky and willow. After all, no one stops in the main corridor. They are always en route to another destination. Why not give them a little pep in their walk? A little Joy de Vivre?
Now the two modules centered off of fuscia should speak of care and comfort. For the minimum pod I thought of ecru. Warm, unstructured and without the intensity of purpose that fuscia imports, it provides a positive energy source to nourish the mind. For the infirmary, we want to center the chi energy into healing. A heliotrope is a nice compromise with fuscia. Still pushing energy, but without being needy and insensitive to the individual need for a calming aura. We must be supportive mustn’t we?
To be completely honest I was at a loss for the housing modules on each side. There is so much change in people coming and going that I can’t get a handle on what would bring the most positive energy to the space. SO, I thought to settle on selecting the aura of the first time I walked into the module. Sometimes a guy has to say what the heck. Go for it. Flaunt it.
For housing people caught in Louisiana- like Burgundy. For Texas- Aqua. For New Mexico- puce. For Oklahoma- Oh my god! Definitely a raspberry shade. And for Arizona with all its hostile vibes, periwinkle. Must calm all that testosterone down.
Now, for the rest of the building. Frankly, there is nothing to be done to fix booking/processing. It is a complete do over. Since we are going to build on with all those poor people being swept up, we should think of just writing off booking and putting it in the new wing. There is no correction for its present harshness. You would think some right wing Republican designed it. It is so repressed.
First, we must bring in a feng shui master (Yes silly, that is how you spell it.). When a person is brought in they have been terribly traumatized. Say you are a drunk (an illness)undocumented American and high on drugs (more illness), and just raped a six year old neighbor kid( definitely needs therapy, so many issues) that last thing you want is a negative energy space. Now, I know policy frowns on hugs, but let’s try to be supportive, not judgmental. So maybe we design the space to be not so linear. Let’s bring in gentle curves to let out the bad energy and bring in the good. And, what is this with the lack of life force? The current booking/processing just screams for decorative plantings.
Let’s bring in lots of plants and the soothing sounds of running water. I envision an atrium. Wouldn’t that be so lovely? Maybe we could incorporate a waterfall. Think of how we could lower stress if an incoming detainee was met with warm sun tones, full spectrum light, and maybe a cleansing strawberry fruit smoothie.
Now I know what you are thinking, but I’m not through yet. I haven’t missed it. Say the incoming person is absolutely bedraggled by enduring the horrendous indignity of being grabbed by macho men and held in bondage against his will…… where was I, I got lost in the imagery. Oh well, let’s just leave it at he was manhandled. Why damage his MS-13 self image with immediate booking? Already we’ve started to turn a frown upside down with our positive space. What we need to do is pamper, not punish. What would you think of a spa? Maybe with a little aromatherapy and a cucumber eye pack, someone who has been up doing meth for seven days straight can finally relax. Too much alcohol? Try an oatmeal body scrub and an acupuncture treatment. Sex offender? A macrobiotic meal plan to reduce harmful body toxins. The possibilities are endless. We have pushed our reset button to the world and now need to lead by example.
But, I also have to say, we really need to work on ourselves. When we interact with our customers, what image do we project? I mean really, uniforms? It is SO twentieth century. Most of us are not only secure in our masculinity we revel in it. Now, let’s just envision ourselves in a winter color outfit, I would go all the way to pumpkin but that might be a bit too radical. So, I would settle for a cinnamon color. White boots would be just peachy (Pun intended), but then you would have to have a different color after Labor Day.
If we are keeping the black boots, then couldn’t we accessorize with…maybe some scarves of multi color? Department of Immigration colors even? Wouldn’t that be an homage to tradition? When new illegal alien, no strike that, guests or customers, see sky willow, or any of the new colors. I really want them to say- in the only street vernacular so comfortable to them, “WHAT THE F**K?”
We are so trend setting here at ICE!
Thank you AuntB, that is very interesting indeed. I’m going to copy that report and use it as ammunition in the coming days. As a matter of fact, I may just send it to Governor Brewer.
How sweet it is!
The government should run these camps, and stop the flow so they don’t need them.
If they need them, then keep the incarcerated in wood sheds that have no floor, only have a porta pottie, and nothing else. Give them two blankets and some good shoes. Let them tough it out.
Give them water. Feed them two minimalist meals a day that taste like dog food, but at least provide the sustenance that a human needs to remain healthy.
Don’t mistreat them, but make sure they exit the nation ASAP. And if they come back, put them in an identical facility for three years. The third time, put them in an forget about them. At least they won’t be killing our citizens any longer.
They are simply housing aliens, in the style Mexico, etc. demands instead of deporting them and there isn’t enough space for all of them, so they bribe congresspeople, build more, more aliens come, we run out of space....hence we get this:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/Paper21/terrorism.html
[snip]* A lack of detention space has allowed several terrorists who had no legal right to be in the country to be released into the country. For example, Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center Attack, did not have a visa to enter the country, but he applied for asylum when he arrived at JFK airport and because of a lack of detention space he was paroled into the country.
RE :”Actually, if you were a terrorist spy, wouldn’t it make sense now to go visit your ‘friend’ in an ICE detention facility and, while there, make important phone calls to your foreign contacts?’
Knowing how sneaky and dishonest Obama is he is probably telling hispanics they are safe to use those phones while secretly wiretapping them.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s AGAINST THE LAW to enter this Country illegally. If you do so, then you are violating a Federal Statute, which is BREAKING the LAW. That makes you a CRIMINAL.
When Ice said they wouldn’t take aliens that Arizona detains, Sheriff Joe says he’ll put them in his tent cities....the alien lobby will have a fit! It’s good enough for USA citizens, but not for aliens!
The irony is so thick, you could wall up the entire border with it....
Curious, isn’t it? We can’t afford to deport or build a fence...but we can afford this BS.
It’s appalling that the Vet hospitals aren’t going to be as good as enemy detntion centers. I don’t think that enemy detention centers should be torture chambers, but they only have to be livable, not five star hotels.
It's just our way of apologizing for not being Mexico.
Lordy!
And Nathan Deal wants to be Georgia Governor.
Saxby Chambliss is ‘conservative’ only when it gets him votes. But he nearly lost the last election and he’s doing better, but has a long way to go.
NO WONDER so many Congress members won’t stand up and speak out. They’re afraid of losing their ‘gravy train’ reelection funds.
Repeal the 17th Amendment and Reinstate Article 1 Section 3 of the US Constitution.
Judging by the care my VA physician has been giving me lately, I'd agree...
>>Illegal immigration is big money! And these corps have no problem handing out big contributions.<<
How would you like to own a hotel with 100% occupancy? Do you think you could afford to spread a little money around to the ones who keep the occupancy rate at 100%?
Yes, it is. We don’t do this much for our own bets or the homeless. I believe you mentioned the vets earlier.
LOL!
Our political system is hopelessly corrupt.
Yes, it’s so absurd that about all you CAN DO is laugh.
Look at those pillows. Honest to John, we’re nucken futz.
To a lot of illegal peasants, this prison would be like a stay at the Ritz Carlton.
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