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ICE Dodged Orders to Free Detainees—and Triggered an Outbreak

WRONG WAY

Employees warned their bosses at the for-profit immigration jail not to accept detainee transfers pushed by ICE. The bosses went ahead anyway.

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At the end of April, Florida federal Judge Marcia Cooke ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement prisons were such a tinderbox for the novel coronavirus that ICE had to begin efforts at letting people out.

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