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Advocates want to continue modifying family detention rules

posted: January 13, 2008

Dallas

"We commend the Department of Homeland Security for drafting standards that will improve these facilities," Michelle Brane, director of the detention and asylum program at the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, said in a statement Friday. But she said the group is concerned that children can be disciplined based on adult prison protocol, including the use of restraints, steel batons and strip searches.

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