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A new report released Monday by Human Rights Watch details what the organization describes as “abusive practices” at three immigrant detention facilities in the state of Florida.

The report documents conditions for detained immigrants at Florida’s Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome), the Broward Transitional Center (BTC), and the Federal Detention Center (FDC) during the period of January through June of this year, and it alleges that all three facilities “flagrantly violate international human rights standards and the United States government’s own immigration detention standards.”

Among other things, the report shows that the number of detainees at the........

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