There are currently no uniform standards to ensure that immigration detainees receive sufficient medical care.

There are several hundred immigration detainees in these jails at any given moment.

The report also asserted that the vast majority of the immigration detainees had no connection with terrorists.

The rule prohibits state and local employees from disclosing the names of immigration detainees in their custody.

Under Federal law, all immigration detainees have the right to counsel, but not at Government expense.

A great majority of all immigration detainees were fingerprinted, immigration officials said.

It has been more than a year since Mr. Azmath was taken into custody, initially as an immigration detainee.

Like many immigration detainees, he was taken to the county jail.

Rochester then became a mixed site prison for immigration detainees and a resettlement unit for adult male prisoners.

"Piedmont prison guards have engaged in a pattern of abusive incidents against immigration detainees," the complaint said.