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Detained Asylum Seekers Protest in Winnfield, Louisiana

HeadlineDec 04, 2019

In Louisiana, asylum seekers detained at an immigrant jail in the rural town of Winnfield are refusing to move into their cells as part of an ongoing protest against their prolonged detention. Family members of people detained at the Winn Correctional Center say some asylum seekers are sleeping outside the facility and have inscribed towels and bed sheets with the word “libertad,” or “freedom” in Spanish. Winn detains about 1,500 men and is one of eight jails in Louisiana that began imprisoning asylum seekers last year.

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