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Posted: January 22, 2009SIROW Releases Report on Women in Detention
A new report completed by Nina Rabin of UA's Southwest Institute for Research on Women, documents the poor conditions faced by women in Arizona's immigration detention centers.
A press briefing and discussion about the report, "Unseen Prisoners: A Report on Women in Immigration Detention Facilities in Arizona," will be held Jan. 13, featuring an overview of the project, its findings and recommendations. .
The 10-11 a.m. event will be held in Room 168 of the UA law school. Event speakers include Lindsay Marshall, the executive director of the Florence Immigration and Refugee Rights Project, Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and Rigel Massaro, a third-year UA law student and research team member. The event is free and open to both the public and media.
For the full report, click here.
For more information please contact, Nina Rabin @ rabin@email.arizona.edu.
