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"This administration is committed to immigration detention reform and has taken important steps to fundamentally change the detention system," Brian P. Hale, a spokesman, said in an e-mail message.

If the state was to do away with the cash bail system, Maryland would join a handful of other states, including Kentucky and New Jersey, that have enacted pretrial detention reform.

Regarding "Honoring That Promise of Detention Reform" (editorial, Sept. 22) and "Border fantasies" (editorial, Sept. 23): The failure to improve the subhuman conditions in America's immigration jails and the obsession with building bigger and better fences along America's Mexican border, while doing nothing about real immigration reform, are symptoms of a deeper disturbance in U.S. society.

She is the author of Detention Reform and Girls, a volume of the Pathways to Detention Reform series published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (2005) and Making Detention Reform Work for Girls: Practice Guide #5 (Annie E. Casey Foundation).

"In the detention reform movement and prison reform movement there's always that tension.

The Obama administration acknowledges that ODLS is part of its commitment to detention reform.

ICE implemented detention reforms in the 2009 fiscal year, when there were 14 deaths.

"In theory, I knew a lot about detention," said Mr. Loyo, 24, who worked on a detention-reform bill last summer as a Congressional intern.

Many of the reforms stem from a 2003 ruling by the Superior Court of Alameda County that found the state juvenile justice system to be poorly managed and unsafe, and while no one can argue that today's system is the same as it was a decade ago, many critics argue that state facilities remain unequipped to manage juvenile detention and reform.

"President Obama deserves credit for adopting immigration detention conditions reforms early in his presidency and for his recent executive action on immigration," said Carl Takei, Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, in an email to VICE.

To reduce the prison population without affecting public safety, the state enacted a "Realignment Plan" and considered several other measures, including making possession of drugs into a misdemeanor instead of a felony, reducing the state's use of pre-trial detention, and reforming the state's harsh "three-strikes-you're-out" law.