detainee

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"Many of us are aware that the amnesty law does not cover our relatives," Hiowanka Avila, 39, told AFP outside the Rodeo 1 prison near Caracas, where many of the detainees are ex-soldiers or officers.

From Barron's

But human rights advocates say Venezuelan authorities have been slow to release detainees.

From The Wall Street Journal

A United Nations study of the camp published in October found that as many as a quarter of detainees had no links to Islamic State.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although the ICE Health Service Corps is responsible for detainees’ medical care, it provides direct treatment at just 17 of more than 200 facilities across the country, including six in Texas.

From Salon

Early last year, prison officials transferred Hernández out of the federal detention center in Brooklyn, which largely holds pretrial detainees, and sent him to the high-security Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia.

From Salon