Top 10 Reasons Family Incarceration is Not a Solution

The Trump Administration is attempting to replace its failed policy of family separation with the failed policy of family incarceration. ICE already detains families at three facilities in Dilley and Karnes, Texas and Reading, Pennsylvania, but the Trump Administration wants to lock up families even longer and overturn legal rules that protect children from lengthy detention. Detaining families is neither humane nor necessary.

IN FACT, THE PLAN TO HOLD FAMILIES IN DETENTION LONGER:

1. Hurts Children: The nation’s leading pediatricians warn detention is “no place for a child, even if they are accompanied by their families,” finding family detention centers do not meet basic standards for the care of children. Locking up children is associated  “poorer health outcomes, higher rates of psychological distress, and suicidality.” DHS’s own  committee recommended family detention be discontinued as “detention or the separation of families…is never in the best interest of children.”