These are actually jail-like facilities. They should be called family prison facilities or family detention facilities or family jail facilities but not family residential centers.
Ted Lieu: “These are actually jail-like facilities. They should be called family prison facilities or family detention facilities…”
On the recordJune 16, 2015
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Criticizing the terminology used for detention facilities for families.
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