What is it the difference between being in detention and being in jail?
Though the word “detention” is used for people in immigration custody, because their detention is considered to be administrative custody as opposed to criminal custody, people in federal immigration detention are in jail. There are a number of different types of jails that immigrants in federal immigration custody are held in, including: * jails owned and managed directly by the federal government (ICE); * jails owned and managed by local governments (such as county Sheriffs) and leased to ICE exclusively for immigration detention; * jails owned and managed by local governments and partially leased to ICE (in other words, some people in the facility are either involved in pending criminal cases or serving sentences for completed criminal cases); and * jails owned and managed by private for-profit corporations, such as Corrections Corporation of America or GEO.
