The pictures in this solo show, a slightly compressed version of a 2012 self-published book, come from five years that Mr. Ross spent visiting some 200 juvenile detention facilities in 31 states, photographing and interviewing inmates, male and female, ranging in age from 10 to their early 20s, with most in their mid-teens.
Saad Sultan, the supervisor of detention facilities in the Human Rights Ministry, said in an interview that more than 3,000 prisoners in American custody had been transferred to a detention facility at Camp Cropper, an American military base near Baghdad International Airport, on Aug. 15.
Journalists who recently toured some detention facilities in Texas were not allowed to photograph or interview immigrants, so last week The Times asked volunteers and attorneys visiting detained immigrant parents to convey written questions.
We know from our many interviews that prisoners were held in official and unofficial detention facilities, such as a tobacco factory in Tripoli".
Thai officials have vehemently denied the existence of any secret detention facilities, despite the CIA confirming in 2009 that it had destroyed some 92 tapes of interviews with terror suspects that had been safeguarded somewhere in Thailand.
The report is the third of its kind in four years, and is based on interviews with almost 800 detainees who had been held in 221 different detention facilities.
In a series of interviews, he described how he was tortured and interrogated over a two-year period in four detention facilities before arriving in a hospital at the heart of a nationwide system of brutality.
The detention facilities should be shut down.
They run prisons and immigration detention facilities.
Ice runs a variety of detention facilities across the country.
