Why one former immigrant detainee says detention centers should be called prisons

Carlos Hidalgo displayed a batch of handwritten letters he’s received from people held inside California’s largest immigrant detention center.
“A lot of friends that I’ve made here have asked to be deported because of the conditions we live in, (it’s) not human like,” one person wrote.
Another said of being inside the center after serving time in jail: “It’s like paying for the same crime twice.”
Carlos Hidalgo, a former detainee at the