Sen. Blumenthal calls for hearings after NBCNews report on solitary confinement at ICE facilities.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., wants Congress to investigate the use of solitary confinement on immigrant detainees in Department of Homeland Security custody.NBC News investigation
"This report should shock the conscience of every member of Congress," Blumenthal said in a statement to NBC News on Friday."Putting immigrants fleeing for their lives in solitary confinement, alone and away from any human contact for days, weeks, months is inhumane. It is un-American."The investigation found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was regularly forcing people into solitary confinement often for reasons that had nothing to do with them breaking any rules.
The story chronicled the attempts of a Department of Homeland Security employee to sound the alarm on the rampant use of solitary on the mentally ill and other vulnerable people in ICE custody.
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