More than 100 state and national groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Progress Virginia, and Doctors for Camp Closure are urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to shut down a privately run detention facility notorious for anti-immigrant abuses for well over a decade. The groups say in the letter that Immigration Centers of America’s (ICA) Farmville facility “has long forced detained immigrants to endure terrible conditions including excessive use of force, solitary confinement, and limited access to counsel and family members.” During the novel coronavirus pandemic, it was site of one of the worst outbreaks in the nation. Read more