Immigrant Family Separation in Northwest Juvenile Jails

  • Date: April 22, 2020
Immigrant Family Separation in Northwest Juvenile Jails

In the Pacific Northwest, two county-run juvenile jails have been reaping revenue from the Trump administration’s family separation practices for years, while mounting an unusual effort to conceal these practices from the public: the Cowlitz County Youth Services Center in Longview, Washington, and the juvenile Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NORCOR), in The Dalles, Oregon.

This report, a joint publication of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) and the Transformative Immigration Law course at Lewis and Clark Law School taught by Professor Juliet Stumpf, shares the results of our ongoing research on the detention of noncitizen children in these jails.