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Lost in Detention

Video: Watch FRONTLINE documentary

By Workshop Staff

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 

Watch Lost in Detention on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

This is the FRONTLINE documentary that aired Oct. 18, 2011.

Lost in Detention

Stories in this investigation

  • Reporter’s Notebook: On the border with the Minutemen
  • Report: deportation efforts still broad, uneven
  • DHS to begin review of deportation cases
  • Saving lives on the border
  • Chat: Filmmakers answer questions live
  • Sec. Napolitano Questioned About 'Lost in Detention'
  • Graphic: Migrant returns by nationality
  • Video: Watch FRONTLINE documentary
  • Who worked on 'Lost in Detention'
  • Will immigrant detainees get protection from abuse?
  • New documents detail sex abuse of detained immigrants
  • The story behind 'Lost in Detention'

Multimedia

Videos: Lost in Detention

Videos: Lost in Detention

Map: Immigration detention facilities, 1981-2011

Map: Immigration detention facilities, 1981-2011

Documents

  • Complaints are passed on to other offices; no record of resolutions 
  • Corrections officer found guilty of sexual abuse of a ward
  • Detainees allege retaliation when they file grievances
  • Immigrations enforcement agent assaulted detainee while transporting her
  • Sexual abuse complaint from Pennsylvania, but no resolution noted
  • Some cases involved gay and transgender detainees
  • Sometimes, abuse is detainee-on-detainee, as alleged in Washington
  • Willacy Detention Center largest source of complaints

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