Forty-eight are in a long-term detention that is certainly illegal.
But it also underscored official ambivalence over an extralegal form of detention that has drawn criticism from rights activists and outraged many Chinese.
It is used for suspects under arraigo — a forty-day preventive detention that is a key part of new federal emergency security law.
Some halfway-house facilities are offshoots of private prisons; the GEO Group's Reëntry Services, for instance, promises "safe, secure alternatives to detention that are proven to reduce recidivism".
Beyond the important symbolism of closing the camp, the more substantive issue was the system of indefinite detention that took place there.
In addition, Justice Breyer said cases of terrorism or other special circumstances might require a form of preventive detention that is not justified in the ordinary case.
The Home Office accepted the medical report carried out in detention that showed Voke was a victim of gender-based violence, but kept her in Yarl's Wood.
The court said that detention that did not meet these conditions would be unconstitutional, because it would infringe on the exclusive power of judges to detain people.
Mr. Michel said his client told judges during his detention that had "had not committed insider trading," The Associated Press reported.
"These men," she writes, "are confined because of what they might do someday, exactly the kind of preventive detention that seems like an obvious constitutional problem".
Laura's friend said that her own decision to sign was influenced by the prospect of the long detention that often accompanies fighting deportation.
